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Anti-Aging Start-Up Is Charging Thousands of Dollars for Teen Blood (vanityfair.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A startup called Ambrosia is charging about $8,000 a pop for blood transfusions from people under 25, Jesse Karmazin said at Code Conference. Ambrosia, which buys its blood from blood banks, now has about 100 paying customers. Some are Silicon Valley technologists, like Thiel, though Karmazin stressed that tech types aren't Ambrosia's only clients, and that anyone over 35 is eligible for its transfusions. Karmazin was inspired to found Ambrosia after seeing studies researchers had done involving sewing mice together with their veins conjoined. Some aspects of aging, one 2013 study found, could be reversed when older mice get blood from younger ones, but other researchers haven't been able to replicate these results, and the benefits of parabiosis in humans remains unclear. "I think the animal and retrospective data is compelling, and I want this treatment to be available to people," Karmazin told the MIT Technology Review.
It's Bram Stoker spining is his grave.
"I bless every day that I continue to live, for every day is pure profit."
... Peter Thiel would be a real-life vampire would actually explain a lot.
We gotta go to a crappy town where I'm a hero.
"All I needed was the blood of a young boy" - https://youtu.be/VRNwqVU70Q8
He's stayed alive this long, he must be onto something
Twinstiq, game news
And I thought the transfusion scene in Silicon Valley with Gavin Belson was so absurd as to be fantasy. The real Silicon Valley (place) is far scarier than the show makes it out to be.
would you then be a stakeholder ?
People in hell do not rot, as it turns out. The structural integrity of their bodies is miraculously maintained so that they can be tortured in fire indefinitely. That is how beings of justice, love, and mercy behave towards their creations.
Once again, the Simpsons were ahead of their time:
“I tried every tincture and poultice and tonic and patent medicine there is, and all I really needed was the blood of a young boy.”
--Montgomery Burns
For $8000 a pop, I expect that these blood donations are heavily screened for disease.
These are wealthy, well-informed people who can work out the risk/benefit tradeoffs for themselves. And for the rest of us, they are willing human subjects that hopefully will contribute to figuring out cheaper and better ways of making such treatments happen for everybody.