Jeff Bezos anti-aging research hires top scientists to find immortality

Amazon founder and NASA-suing billionaire Jeff Bezos doesn't seem happy with the concept of death. In order to combat his inevitable end within the next 40 years or so, Bezos is funnelling a lot of money into anti-aging research; like Peter Weyland in Prometheus.

Reported by The Times, Amazon's bald billionaire boy is recruiting top scientists to help find the cure to aging. As part of Bezosā€™ tech startup Atlos Labs, veteran scientist Hal Barron will now be working on anti-aging medication.

Jeff Bezos wants to find immortality

Atlos Labsā€™ hiring of Barron is part of a massive wave of decorated scientists coming together to beat aging. Previously, Barron was the Chief Scientific Officer of UK pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline.

He is joined by a remarkable team of colleagues including 2012 Nobel prize winner Shinya Yamanaka and 2020 Nobel prize co-winner Jennifer Doudna. The team is also joined by an massive group of other scientists looking to conquer the Grim Reaper.

ā€œI am deeply honored to have been offered this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to lead such a unique company with a transformative mission to reverse disease,ā€ Barron announced in a press release. ā€œIt's clear from work by Shinya Yamanaka, and many others since his initial discoveries, that cells have the ability to rejuvenate, resetting their epigenetic clocks and erasing damage from a myriad of stressors.ā€

The Bezos-funded company formerly started work on Wednesday. There is currently no announced roadmap for the company's development of an immortality drug.

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More billionaires are funding this

Jeff Bezos isn't the only billionaires pumping money into Atlos Labsā€™ immortality research, although he is the top dog. Atlos has currently secured its initial round of funding at $3 billion. While the majority of that money is from the Amazon founder, there are others as well.

For example, the research is also funded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, a 60-year-old venture capitalist. Milner has hands in a large selection of massive companies including Zynga, Facebook, Twitter, Spotify and more.

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