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The Wealthy Are Weirdly Psyched to Download Their Brains Into Computers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Billionaires are funding immortality tech. And in theory, such techology would allow those billionaires to compound their wealth and power forever. Gulp.

Experts Worried Elderly Billionaires Will Become Immortal, Compounding Wealth Forever

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Jeff Bezos has backed anti-aging startup Alto Labs, which has recently hired former chief scientific officer of GlaxoSmithKline Hal Barron as its CEO.

Jeff Bezos Startup Hires Top Scientist to Defeat Death

By Tony Ho Tran

Geneticist Brian Hanley explained his life-extending experiments and why climate change will be his future cause of death if he lives to be 150 years old.

Guy Testing Life-Extending Gene Therapy on Himself Admits That Environmental Catastrophe May Pose Problem

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Altos Labs, a biological reprogramming tech company, is allegedly attracting big name investors such as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

Super Wealthy Fund Mysterious Lab to Unlock Immortality

By Tony Ho Tran

Research suggests scientists should pay greater attention to their lab mice's well-being. Not only for the mice's sake, but because it improves the science.

Scientists Gene Edit Mice to Live 23 Percent Longer

By Tony Ho Tran

A new proposed study will look into the anti-aging effects of Type 2 Diabetes drug metformin — and potentially give us a way to slow down aging for good.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Suspect This Drug Can Actually Delay Aging

By Tony Ho Tran

Medical science has yet to invent anti-aging tech more effective than exercise and a healthy diet. But that's never stopped the super-rich from dreaming.

Prosthetics and Devices

The Quest for Immortality Could Create Two “Classes of Humans”

By Jon Christian

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Prosthetics and Devices

New Tech Is Giving Humanity Many Potential Paths to Immortality

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Health & Medicine

We Will Extend Our Lives but Not Attain Immortality, Says Anti-Aging Researcher

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Prosthetics and Devices

We Need to Prepare for a World Without Aging

By Kelsey R. Marquart

An End to Aging: Can Science Allow Humans to To Become Immortal?

An End to Aging: Can Science Allow Humans to To Become Immortal?

By Christianna Reedy

Geneticists Are Pioneering a Way to Postpone Death Using Human DNA

Science & Energy

Geneticists Are Pioneering a Way to Postpone Death Using Human DNA

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Science & Energy

There is No Limit to Human Life Extension

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A Scientist Injected Himself with 3.5 Million-Year-Old Bacteria Hoping to “Extend Life”