Jeff Bezos involved in project to prevent aging and prolong human life
The world's richest man, Jeff Bezos and Yuri Milner, a billionaire specializing in high-tech projects, partnered to fund research at Altos Labs, a biotech startup looking for ways to reverse aging, reported MIT Technology Review.
The "startup" is focused on studying cell reprogramming, which consists of adding special proteins to a cell to tell it to return to a state similar to that of a stem cell.
The author of these studies is Shinya Yamanaka, a 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine, who will be an unpaid senior scientist and chair of the company's scientific advisory board, sources close to the project revealed.
Altos Labs was founded in the United States earlier this year and has so far raised at least $270 million .
In addition to Bezos and Milner, the company has the financia...