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The Prolongation of Life: Optimistic Studies.
Ed Yong • I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Altos Labs, which has raised $3 billion, more start-up funding than for any previous biotech venture, is one company seeking to find effective anti-aging technologies. Its chief scientist, Richard Klausner, argues, “We think we can turn back the clock” on human mortality. Focusing on techniques of “rejuvenation programming,” the company aims to
... See moreMustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Accomplishing the goal of being able to write as well as to read human genes required a shift in focus from DNA to its less famous sibling that actually carries out its coded instructions. RNA (ribonucleic acid) is a molecule in living cells that is similar to DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), but it has one more oxygen atom in its sugar-phosphate
... See moreWalter Isaacson • The Code Breaker
A Revolution in Biology
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