i’m low-key sick of people asking me why I’m interested in solving aging, as if I need a special reason to want to work on the thing that kills 80% of people (including you, your family, oh and your dog too). it’s the people who don’t want to solve aging who are the weirdos.

📣 PSA: Ending aging ≠ Immortality! No aging means that being 100 years old will no longer mean decrepitude and frailty and losing beauty just because you've been around a long time. It does not mean you can't be shot or hit by a train or burned in a fire or blown up etc. .

Would love to see a global Longevity agreement coming out of this that states that each nation will spend 1% of their GDP on science and biotech that will get us to 150 years.

Don’t Die will take the world by storm. A few breakthrough therapies will wet the appetite and then people will begin imagining bigger things. It’s already on the minds of Xi and Putin.

Until 1962, the FDA wasn't in the business of evaluating drug efficacy, only safety. It was a time where drugs were so cheap that early Medicare didn't even cover them (as opposed to doctor visits and hospital needs). Since efficacy evaluation was put in the hands of the FDA,.

Rapamycin Longevity Lab is proud to announce that the world-leading researcher Brian Kennedy (@BKennedy_aging) will join the lab as a scientific advisor. We are also thrilled to welcome Kamil Pabis (@Aging_Scientist), a great researcher from Brian’s lab, who will take on the role

Life give life meaning. Aging is something to fight against.

This is big. OpenAI and Retro used a custom model to make cellular reprogramming into stem cells ~50× better, faster, and safer. Similar Wright brothers’ glider to a jet engine overnight. We may be the first generation who won't die. Let's take a look at what they did. 🧵

"Illness is normal", they said. "Let's learn to live with it.". "Death is normal", they said. "Let's… er…well, you know what we mean.". "Pessimism is normal.". Perhaps, but it shouldn't be. Because it is false.