Vladimir Putin · Xi Jinping · MIT Technology Review
Generation Lab asserts its drug combo can “stop the spread of aging” around the body
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Key facts
- With the developments of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously transplanted, and people can live younger and younger, and even achieve immortality,” Russia’s Vladimir Putin reportedly told
- Generation Lab claims its drug combo can “stop the spread of aging” around the body
- Around this time last year the reporter was attending an aging conference in Manchester, listening to a talk about fly aging, when their phone started pinging
- Unfortunately for Putin, new research pours a little cold water on this idea
Summary
Around this time last year the reporter was attending an aging conference in Manchester, listening to a talk about fly aging, when their phone started pinging. “With the developments of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously transplanted, and people can live younger and younger, and even achieve immortality,” Russia’s Vladimir Putin reportedly told China’s Xi Jinping. He seems to have been referring to the “replacement” theory of longevity, which has been supported by multiple experiments that involved physically stitching young mice to old ones. Unfortunately for Putin, new research pours a little cold water on this idea. Jesse Poganik at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston is one of the many scientists trying to understand exactly what it is about the bodies of young mice that rejuvenates old ones.