Jeff Bezos forever! Anti-ageing the next frontier for Amazon billionaire

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Israeli entrepreneur Yuri Milner are reportedly funding a new anti-ageing venture coming out of Silicon Valley that helps humans “live forever”.

JEFF BEZOS: NEXT MISSION? TO ‘LIVE FOREVER’

Aside from his venture into space, Jeff Bezos has a new mission on the horizon and it is to live forever. Jeff Bezos and Yuri Milner have reportedly invested in Altos Labs, a start-up company that aims to reverse the ageing process.

According to Forbes, Jeff Bezos is the world’s richest person with a net worth of an estimated $200 billion (R286 trillion) and Milner is worth $4.8 billion (R68 billion).

The company was incorporated in Delaware, US earlier this year and filed in California in June. According to a report by MIT Technology Review, the company raised at least $270 million (R386 billion).

Atlos Labs is reportedly recruiting university scientists with salaries as high as $1 million (R14 million) to conduct research on how cells age and how to reverse that process for a longer life span.

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A TICKING BIOLOGICAL CLOCK?

Jeff Bezos is 57 while Milner is 59 and it seems the billionaires are thinking of death and dying and want no part of it. Atlos Labs may just be their solution…

Although living forever may be overly ambitious goal, a Spanish biologist on the project, Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, has predicted the human lifespan could be increased by 50 years.

Atlos Labs also recruited:

• Nobel Prize winner Dr Shinya Yamanaka, who won his coveted award in 2012 for The discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent
• Peter Walter of the University of California to look into memory molecules.
• University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) professor Steve Horvath who came up with the “biological clock” calculator.
• Dr Jennifer Doudna for won a Nobel Prize for her co-discovery of CRISPR gene editing in 2020.
• Manuel Serrano from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine. Dr Shinya Yamanaka, who shared a Nobel Prize for the discovery of reprogramming in 2012 will join as an unpaid senior scientist. 

“The philosophy of Altos Labs is to do curiosity-driven research. This is what I know how to do and love to do. In this case, through a private company, we have the freedom to be bold and explore. In this way it will rejuvenate me,” said Serrano in a statement.

Jeff Bezos has funded similar research previously as he invested in anti-ageing company United Biotechnology.

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