What if billionaires discovered the cure for death?
Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel and more are involved in research dedicated to prolonging human life beyond, say,100 years.
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Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel and more are involved in research dedicated to prolonging human life beyond, say,100 years.
In a new study published Thursday, researchers at UCSD altered genetic circuitry that controls aging in yeast cells, extending their lifespan by 82 percent.
The quest to cure death is a rich person’s game, which worries some experts in case humans ever figure out how to achieve immortality.
The scary hypothesis - which warns that driven mogul like Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates could soon have access to an ever-lasting lifespan - has been laid by an increasing amount of scientists in recent years.
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