{"id":154222,"date":"2023-01-02T22:25:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T04:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/altos-bursts-out-of-stealth-with-3b-a-dream-team-c-suite-and-a-wildly-ambitious-plan-to-reverse-disease"},"modified":"2023-01-02T22:25:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T04:25:03","slug":"altos-bursts-out-of-stealth-with-3b-a-dream-team-c-suite-and-a-wildly-ambitious-plan-to-reverse-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/altos-bursts-out-of-stealth-with-3b-a-dream-team-c-suite-and-a-wildly-ambitious-plan-to-reverse-disease","title":{"rendered":"Altos bursts out of stealth with $3B, a dream team C-suite and a wildly ambitious plan to reverse disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/altos-bursts-out-of-stealth-with-3b-a-dream-team-c-suite-and-a-wildly-ambitious-plan-to-reverse-disease.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Altos Labs just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/altos-labs-launches-with-the-goal-to-transform-medicine-through-cellular-rejuvenation-programming-301463541.html\">redefined<\/a> big in biotech. Where to start? The $3 billion in investor support? The C-suite staffed by storied leaders\u2014Barron, Bishop, Klausner\u2014identifiable by one name? Or the wildly ambitious plan to reverse disease for patients of any age? Altos is all that and more.<\/p>\n<p>Early details of Altos leaked out last year when MIT Technology Review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2021\/09\/04\/1034364\/altos-labs-silicon-valleys-jeff-bezos-milner-bet-living-forever\/\">reported<\/a> Jeff Bezos had invested to support development of technology that could \u201crevitalize entire animal bodies, ultimately prolonging human life.\u201d The official reveal fleshes out the vision and grounds the technology in the context of the nearer-term opportunities it presents to improve human health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear from work by Shinya Yamanaka, and many others since his initial discoveries, that cells have the ability to rejuvenate, resetting their epigenetic clocks and erasing damage from a myriad of stressors. These insights, combined with major advances in a number of transformative technologies, inspired Altos to reimagine medical treatments where reversing disease for patients of any age is possible,\u201d Hal Barron, M.D., said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Altos Labs just redefined big in biotech. Where to start? The $3 billion in investor support? The C-suite staffed by storied leaders\u2014Barron, Bishop, Klausner\u2014identifiable by one name? Or the wildly ambitious plan to reverse disease for patients of any age? Altos is all that and more. Early details of Altos leaked out last year when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}