Edge's News: Jeff Bezos Reportedly Invests in Anti-Ageing Start-Up

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A company called Altos Labs is rumoured to have pursued biological reprogramming technology to rejuvenate cells in the lab that some researchers think could be extended to revitalise entire animal bodies, hence opening paths to prolong human life.

Jeff Bezos

Former Amazon CEO and the world's richest person Jeff Bezos has invested in a new anti-ageing company called Altos Labs, citing people familiar with the matter. According to the media outlet, the research-based company is working on biological reprogramming technology, seeking ways to rejuvenate cells in the lab that some scientists think could be extended to revitalise entire animal bodies, and ultimately prolonging human life.


Bezos resigned as CEO of Amazon in July and said earlier this year that he would spend more time on philanthropy and passion projects, like his space company Blue Origin.


Altos was incorporated in Delaware this year and a securities disclosure filed in California in June indicates the company has raised at least $270 million.


Yuri Milner

A Russian-born billionaire by the name of Yuri Milner, who made a fortune on Facebook and other tech investments, also has a stake in Altos.


Incorporated in the US and in the UK earlier this year, the company is expected to establish institutes in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Diego, Cambridge, UK, and Japan. It is reportedly recruiting scientists with lavish salaries and the promise that they can do research on how cells age and how to reverse that process.


This is not the first time Bezos has been linked to a live-forever project. In 2018, he funded research by Unity Technologies, a biotech company whose goal was making anti-ageing therapies.


Bezos stepped down as the CEO of Amazon in July, with the former chief of the cloud computing division, Andy Jassy, taking over the job. 


The company Altos Labs was founded earlier this year and is poaching university scientists with salaries as high as $1 million and promises that they can pursue their own research on how cells age and how to reverse that process.


Altos Labs also counts Bezos among its investors, the report said, citing people briefed by the company. Bezos’ investment office Bezos Expeditions did not return The Post’s request for comment.


Bezos, 57, is currently the world’s richest man with a net worth of about $201 billion, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index.


Source: MIT Tech Review


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