aging

“That would get the average lifespan up to 113 by targeting aging directly rather than targeting individual diseases one at a time. And what's really key too is this would be an additional 30 years of healthy life.”

“Aging was the world's most important problem, the source of the world's greatest amount of suffering, and so on.”

“Making machines smart enough to relieve us of the tedium of having to spend our lives doing things that we wouldn't do if we weren't being paid in order to make the world go around. Yeah, so I wanted that to end. But I always knew that that was only the world'…”

“When we think about disease, we think of disease as something bad happening to us, but a lot of that stuff is exacerbated with age, and that age itself is like so much of the challenge that we get Cancer and Alzheimer's and type two diabetes with such greater …”

“Obviously, we want to be able to predict drug toxicity. We want to be able to predict aging. We want to be able to predict why a liver cell becomes cirrhotic when you repeatedly challenge it with ethanol molecules or whatever, right? And, you know, the, these …”

“I think aging is in a somewhat similar space in that it's a massive multifactorial disease, and if we rely on existing modality approaches, it would just be an uphill battle to try and treat it.”