First space, now eternal life: Jeff Bezos invests in a company to reverse aging

Yuri Milner is a Russian venture capitalist known, among other things, for creating the Breakthrough Prize, an annual honor that rewards the winner in three categories: math, physics and life, with three million dollars (much extra than a Nobel Prize). . science. . 

Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos is an American businessman and the founding tycoon of Amazon and Blue Origin, the aerospace travel company that recently arrived in space (in July due to the New Shepard rocket where Bezos brought him - he was even on board - even his brother or)  .

The two teamed up to finance a startup with a very ambitious goal: reversing aging.

Do you want to live forever?

Start-up Altos Labs has raised at least $ 270 million (approximately $ 228 million) to analyze the potential of cell reprogramming technology to turn our body clocks; first in animals and potentially in humans .

Among the company's signature signatures are Shinya Yamanaka, a pioneer in cell reprogramming research who won the Nobel Prize for such research in 2012, and two of Spain's most famous biologists: Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, a Spanish biologist from Salk. Institute, California (which has gained notoriety for research involving human embryos and monkeys and predicts that human life expectancy could upsurge by 50 years) and Manuel Serrano, of the Institute for Biomedical Research in Barcelona. Peter Walter also joins the University of California, which is studying a molecule that affects memory, as well as cell reprogramming expert Wolf Reik, a former member of Babraham Insistute cutting-edge the UK .

Altos Labs was originated earlier this year and attracts scientists with salaries of one million dollars a year or more (over 800,000 euros) and allows them to free their minds to study how cells age and how inverse. process, according to the company's report .

The new company will set up several institutes in regions such as the Bay Area in the United States, San Diego, Cambridge, the United Kingdom and Japan and is said to recruit researchers with luxury salaries and the promise of clear search.

Objective: understand rejuvenation

The scientific goal is to master the ability to perform cell reprogramming; understand how cells age and how to get back into this process

Rejuvenation is not just vanity. Aging also means more health risks and poorer disease outcomes. If we could slow down the aging process, stop it or even reverse it, it would have incredibly beneficial effects on society.

While Altos Labs has not yet made an official announcement, it is very likely that, in addition to Bezos and Milner, the company will gain new investors from other wealthy and prominent figures in Silicon Valley and capital firms. . risk.