Jeff Bezos would be one of the very rich patrons who generously fund Altos Labs, a Californian laboratory specializing in the fight against the effects of aging.

The Silicon Valley company can also count on the financial support of Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, according to information from the 

MIT Technology Review,

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The start-up aims to work on cell rejuvenation through biological reprogramming.

Researchers' advances could make it possible to restore youth to animals and, ultimately, to human beings.

The extension of the lifespan, even immortality, is one of the objectives displayed by Altos Labs and other structures working on the same subject.

With these significant financial resources, the laboratory has the possibility of attracting the scientific authorities of the specialty.

Create "great science"

He offered salaries that were difficult to refuse to several recognized academics.

These experts have also been offered attractive funding and decision-making autonomy.

The goal is to provide them with the best possible working conditions to improve their understanding of the aging process and, why not, succeed in reversing it.

The company registered in both the United States and the United Kingdom intends to finance the work with no immediate targets for results or profits.

The company seeks above all to create "a great science".

Two big names in research have already joined Altos Labs.

They are the Spanish biologist Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte and the geneticist Steve Horvath.

The first is known to have successfully crossed human and monkey embryos.

He also considered it possible to extend human life expectancy by 50 years.

As for the second, it has developed a "biological clock" to measure human aging.

Shinya Yamanaka, co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2012, will serve as a volunteer senior scientist and will head the scientific council of the laboratory.

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