“If I could always stay young, and if this painting could age for me!
There is nothing in the world that I would not give... My soul, even!»
The story ended badly for Dorian Gray and his portrait, but Iouri Milner and Jeff Bezos are rather optimistic.
Like Oscar Wilde's hero, the Russian tycoon and ex-CEO of Amazon desire eternal youth.
And they gave themselves the means by launching, on January 19, the company Altos Labs.
Its goal: “To develop life-extending therapies capable of halting or reversing the human aging process.”
Recruited from all over the world, eminent scientists, including a handful of Nobel Prize winners, already have their offices there.
The fledgling biotechnology company is starting out with $3 billion in working capital… a straw for investors who won't have enough lives to spend their fortune.
Money can buy everything, including the fountain...
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