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Paypal Co-Founder Backs Anti-Aging Research Prize
Baldrson writes, "Anti-aging researchers, via The Methuselah Mouse Prize or M-Prize, are receiving an additional $3 million incentive to stop and reverse aging. Researchers win M-Prize money in increments by breaking longevity records for mice or reversing their aging. The philanthropic donation comes from Peter Thiel, co-founder and former CEO of PayPal. Mr. Thiel has pledged to match each dollar donated to the M-Prize with his own 50 cent contributions up to $3 million." The M-Prize was created by Aubrey de Grey, a controversial biomedical gerontologist in Cambridge, England.
How much did the guy inventing the serial to USB converter get for expanding a mouse's lifespan?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
You get to the age of 300, while still looking 21, and then someone initiates a chargeback.
Instant death.
I am definitely buying one of those immortal mice to my daughter. That should teach her a valuable lesson about life.
Full Tilt
Pay the money to people with a family history of long lifespans if they breed with other qualifiers. Even if this prize leads to mice with long lifespans it may not deliver usable insights into human ageing
Should they not also qualify that you are only allowed to reproduce a certain number of times (two seems to be the obvious choice) in order to limit the population size. If this kind of limit wasn't put in place the population size would grow out of control very quickly.
school till 25, work till 85. retirement till sun blows up. Call me strange but that sound pretty good to me.
note: assuming sun does not blow up within the next 4 billion years.
An animal with the parasite would be as successful in spreading its genes as one without it.
Who is the parasite, "me" or "my" mithochondria. It's not an easy question to answer.
The question of whether or not I am a parasite is easier to answer. Yes, yes I am. A girl has to make a living somehow.
KFG
"But you conclude correctly, our brains have advanced far enough that we are not shackled by our instincts. I'd just love to see if we use our brains well (for stuff like this anti-ageing thing) and don't end up blowing ourselves in the long run."
;)
Have you ever watched a beautiful woman pass a group of smart guys on the street. I think there is still some instinct in us
Yes, I get your point. Yes, I agree. Yes, I am somewhat of a pedantic bastard.
The system had the verbosity of HTML combined with all the readability of compiled assembly viewed as bitmap images
There, that's better.
There's a painting of his cousin, Dorian Gray in his attic.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .