As OpenAI's CEO, Altman is widely considered to be the face of artificial intelligence, reprogramming the way we'll live and work for years to come. His relentless push into ...
Venture capitalists are financing drugmakers seeking to improve upon today’s blockbuster weight-loss medications or combat their side effects.
New obesity medications have helped millions of people lose weight but can ...
BioAge Labs has reeled in the biotech industry’s largest private financing round so far in 2024 as the California startup goes full throttle on the hottest areas in obesity ...
Funding to advance Phase 2 clinical trials of azelaprag, an apelin receptor (APJ) agonist, in combination with Lilly’s Zepbound (tirzepatide) and therapeutic pipeline
Azelaprag improves metabolic and muscle ...
Joe Betts-LaCroix didn’t have time to wait for architects, construction workers or really any of the normal things that go into building a new office, let alone a new ...
Dr. Alex Colville joins forces with Laura Deming to lead investments in longevity science moonshots, after deploying $100M fund last year while at Stanford
age1, a venture capital firm catalyzing ...
Chronic diseases like cancer, heart disease and diabetes, first hit the average American in their 60s. Cancer is usually diagnosed at 66, the average age for a first heart attack in ...
Scientists obsessed with aging are sketching a road map of how our bodies change as we grow old in the hopes that it will lead to treatments that could ...
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The times are changing in biopharma.
With the top drugmakers no longer committing most of their resources to the pandemic, biopharma is returning to its roots. But it’s clear the ...
When a startup called Retro Biosciences eased out of stealth mode in mid-2022, it announced it had secured $180 million to bankroll an audacious mission: to add 10 years to ...
As a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, Kristen Fortney used bioinformatics to study the genetics of supercentenarians — people who live to the age of 110 and beyond. Now ...
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“Why is it in popular culture, if you want to live forever, you are evil and you want to kill babies on the side?” says Martin Borch Jensen.
It’s fast ...
Tech billionaires are funding research to help us live longer and healthier lives, but experts warn of an ethical minefield ahead.
When Nir Barzilai specialised in anti-ageing science 30 years ...
Scientists are great at making mice live longer.
Rapamycin, widely prescribed to prevent organ rejection after a transplant, increases the life expectancy of middle-age mice by as much as 60 ...
BioAge Labs, Inc. (“BioAge”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing therapeutics that target the molecular causes of aging to extend healthy human lifespan, today announced positive Phase 1b clinical data ...
Research labs are pursuing technology to “reprogram” aging bodies back to youth.
A little over 15 years ago, scientists at Kyoto University in Japan made a remarkable discovery. When they ...
