HEALTH11 April 2023
ByJULIAN KOPLIN & CHRISTOPHER GYNGELL, THE CONVERSATION
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Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI,recently investedUS$180 million into Retro Biosciences – a company seeking to extend human lifespans by10 healthy years.
One way it plans to achieve this is by “rejuvenating” blood. This idea is based on studies that found old miceshowed signs of reversed agingwhen given the blood of young mice.
Altman isn’t the only Silicon Valley entrepreneur supporting life extension efforts. PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and Google co-founder Larry Page havepoured millionsinto projects that could profoundly affect how we live our lives.
The first question raised is scientific: could these technologies work? On this front the jury is still out, and there are grounds for bothoptimismand skepticism.
The second question is just as important: even if lifespan…
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