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City Visions: Are we close to a cure for aging?

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What if we could end aging and prevent age-related diseases? Joseph Pace and guests explore recent advances in aging and longevity research. 

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Protein primes mouse stem cells to quickly repair injury

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Pretreatment with a stem-cell-activating protein significantly enhances healing in mice, Stanford researchers say. The approach could eventually help people going into surgery or combat heal better from injuries they sustain.

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a16z Podcast: The Science of Extending Life

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Is it real or science fiction to dream of being able to treat… getting old? In this episode, we discuss with Dr. Thomas Rando from Stanford, Kristen Fortney, CEO of BioAge, and a16z’s general partner Vijay Pande where we are in the field of “geroscience” — the idea of studying aging itself, and aging as the root risk for all aging related disease. Far from science fiction, recent discoveries have given us a whole crop of promising breakthroughs to treat aging, such as parabiosis (young blood infused into old blood), senolytics, and rapamycin, and more.    

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Silicon Valley’s Quest To Live Forever

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Can billions of dollars’ worth of high-tech research succeed in making death optional?

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Have Scientists Found a Way to Actually Reduce the Effects of Aging?

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Researchers at the Salk Institute in California have successfully induced cells to behave like younger cells.

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