The conquest of space first, then the elixir of eternal youth.
Silicon Valley and its billionaires are betting on Altos Labs, the start-up that is working on a technology for biological reprogramming as a way to rejuvenate cells in the laboratory and who knows in the future to extend human life.
To support the start-up there are excellent names, according to rumors reported by MIT Technology Review.
These include Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Yuri Milner, the billionaire who has been part of his fortune with Facebook and Mail.ru.
The scientists hired by Altos are also of high profile. There is Carlos Izpisua Belmonte who predicted that the human life span can be extended by 50 years. There's Steve Horvath, a UCLA professor and developer of the "biological clock" that can accurately measure aging. Shinya Yamanaka, who shared the Nobel Prize in 2012, will be part of the start-up without being paid and will lead the scientific advisory board of Altos. The start-up evokes Calico, the anti-aging company founded by Larry Page, the co-founder of Google. (HANDLE).