BioAge identified a blood protein linked to longer human lifespan
Kristen Fortney · Extending Human Lifespan · Dec 23, 2018 · at 8:06
Kristen Fortney is the CEO of BioAge, a biotech startup developing therapies for biological aging. She presents proprietary genomic data showing a blood protein target correlated with healthspan.
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“One of the targets we're working on now is a protein that circulates in your blood, and we discovered that humans who have higher levels of this protein live longer, are less frail, and are protected from disease.”
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