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Jan 20, 2022

Jeff Bezos Startup Hires Top Scientist to Defeat Death

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Jeff Bezos has backed anti-aging startup Alto Labs, which has recently hired former chief scientific officer of GlaxoSmithKline Hal Barron as its CEO.

Jan 20, 2022

Link: Big Pharma loses top scientist to anti-aging research

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“GlaxoSmithKline’s chief scientific officer Hal Barron will step down in August as he moves to lead a Silicon Valley anti-ageing start-up, dealing a blow to the pharma group as it races to rebuild its pipeline of drugs.”

Jan 20, 2022

GSK loses top scientist to anti-ageing start-up

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Link: Big Pharma loses top scientist to anti-aging research.


GlaxoSmithKline’s chief scientific officer Hal Barron will step down in August as he moves to lead a Silicon Valley anti-ageing start-up, dealing a blow to the pharma group as it races to rebuild its pipeline of drugs.

Hal Barron, a veteran drug developer, helped shape GSK efforts when some shareholders raised concerns that chief executive Emma Walmsley’s lack of a scientific background was a hindrance. He will be replaced by internal candidate Tony Wood.

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Jan 19, 2022

Google’s $1.5 billion research center to “solve death”

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Google has been developing what is perhaps the company’s most ambitious project to date: a science startup that will pursue ‘solutions for aging’ with the intended goal of “solving death”.

Calico, a company directed by futurists to explore the concept of “singularity”, has partnered with pharmaceutical giants to research and trial new market drugs that target aging and development.

What is this new audacious project? Who is behind it? In the following feature, Ethan Nash explores.

Jan 19, 2022

A $3bn bet on finding the fountain of youth

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Rejuvenation has been a fantasy since the dawn of storytelling. Could an instant unicorn make it come true? | Science & technology.

Jan 19, 2022

Your eyes hold the key to your true biological age, study finds

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The back of your eye, called the retina, reveals a wealth of health information to doctors, and may one day show your body’s true biological age, regardless of how old you are.

Jan 19, 2022

Are skin, hair, posture and vitality good indicators of biological age?

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The latest episode of the Huberman Lab Podcast is all about the aging process and how to slow, halt or reverse it. My guest is Dr. David Sinclair from Harvard Medical School.

We discuss:

• Epigenetics.
• Fasting, breaking fasts.
• Nutrition, artificial sweeteners.
• How puberty impacts aging.
• Resveratrol, caffeine, electrolytes.
• NAD, NMN, Metformin, Berberine.
• Specific supplementation protocols.

Jan 18, 2022

Dr. Hamed Faridi, PhD — Executive Director — McCormick Science Institute — Herbs & Spices For Health

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Culinary Herbs & Spices For Health, Wellness & Longevity — Dr. Hamed Faridi Ph.D., Executive Director, McCormick Science Institute


Dr. Hamed Faridi, Ph.D. is the founder of Faridi Strategy Group LLC and serves as the Executive Director of the McCormick Science Institute (https://www.mccormickscienceinstitute.com/).

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Jan 17, 2022

Tackling ageing may be best way to prevent multiple chronic conditions from developing in older people

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Although multimorbidity differs for each person, we know that patients tend to suffer from the same groups of diseases — known as “clusters”. This suggests that each cluster may share a common underlying cause. For example, a person with multimorbidity may suffer from heart problems (such as heart disease and high blood pressure) and diabetes, which may all stem from the same cause — such as obesity.

Identifying and treating the cause of a patient’s disease clusters would allow us to more effectively combat several — or even all — of the diseases a patient has using a single treatment. This would both reduce the number of medical appointments a person needs to attend and the number of medications they may need to take.


Ageing is the single biggest risk factor for developing multimorbidity.

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Jan 17, 2022

Dr. Irina Conboy — Rejuvenating Effects of Plasma Dilution

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, life extension

2 big points from this. 1. Plasma dilution does reverse aging but a bit and the next question will be can it be done over and over to make you younger in steps. 2. She mentions wrapping up human test results and hopes to give the results at some point.


At the EARD 2021 conference, Dr. Irina Conboy discusses the rejuvenating effects of plasma dilution in old mice. Dr. Conboy also explains why she believes that the path of rejuvenation is through tissue maintenance and repair, not preventing tissue damage.

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