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"How To Die Young at a Very Old Age" This Pill Promises to Extend Life for a Nickel a Pop.

Progress has been spurred by huge investments from Silicon Valley titans, including Google’s Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, and Oracle cofounder Larry Ellison. Armed with such riches, biotech researchers are now dreaming up a growing list of cribbed-from-science-fiction therapies to beat back death: growing new organs from your own DNA, infusing older bodies with blood and stem cells from young bodies, uploading brains to computers.

Nir Barzilai believes that even a modest slowing of the aging process–and the subsequent extension of health span–would have a greater impact on health and quality of life than a cure for cancer. The upshot: a multitrillion-dollar economic benefit in the decades ahead.

Sam Apple

Full Story: https://www.wired.com/story/this-pill-promises-to-extend-life-for-a-nickel-a-pop/

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