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and Japan, according to MIT Technology Review. I doubt that will make us immortal, but we’re heading in that direction.”Īltos Labs plans to establish several research centers in the US, UK. It will be more difficult, but I think there will be anti-aging therapies in the relatively near future, in 10, 20 or 30 years. “I imagine that if it can be done in a mouse it can be done in humans. That was science fiction 10 years ago,” he said at the time.

In mice it has been reversed, it has been possible to make them live longer, even to make an old mouse young again. “The most important change that has occurred in this field is to begin to consider aging as a disease, as something that can be manipulated. Serrano did reflect on the idea of rejuvenation in an interview with this newspaper in 2017. Izpisua, currently working at the Salk Institute in the United States, has not yet responded to a request for information, and was “out of town, with very limited access to email,” according to an assistant.

Serrano will move to Cambridge (UK) for the role, and declined to comment further on the move. In this way it will rejuvenate me,” the researcher joked. “Through a private company, we have the freedom to be bold and explore. “The aim is to understand rejuvenation,” he said.

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Serrano, who currently works at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine of Barcelona, told the magazine he is being offered a large budget, full autonomy and a salary five to 10 times higher than the one he currently receives. The company, named Altos Labs, has already signed up two prestigious Spanish scientists, Manuel Serrano and Juan Carlos Izpisua, according to the publication, with reported salaries of more than $1 million a year. Their aim? “Silicon Valley’s latest wild bet on living forever,” according to MIT’s Technology Review. A new American company financed by billionaires such as Jeff Bezos and Yuri Milner is recruiting some of the world’s leading experts in aging.