Meet Altos Labs, Silicon Valley’s latest wild bet on living forever

Ever since Alexis Carrel and Charles Lindbergh figured out the perfusion dynamics of organ culture outside the body, hyped-up scientists and celebrity investors have been harping about life-extensionism, even to immortality.  This piece from Technology Review, brings this story to the present, with Richard Klausner, Jeff Bezos, Yuri Milner, Larry Page, Jennifer Doudna, and Juan Carlos Belmonte.  And this is where health science and social science have an irreconcilable difference—when super aging poses homo sapiens’ extinction.     MORE

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