{"id":18907,"date":"2015-10-30T04:28:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T11:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/the-age-age"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:20:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:20:27","slug":"the-age-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/the-age-age","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cAge\u201d Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-age-age.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A very interesting article about the state of funding for aging research and about Buck and ex Geron Mike West.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As I mentioned in last week\u2019s letter, I traveled to San Francisco last Monday with my friend Patrick Cox, who writes our <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mauldineconomics.com\/go\/uu5mb-2\/MEC\">Transformational Technology Alert<\/a><\/em> newsletter. We had dinner with Dr. Mike West of Biotime and then spent the next morning at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. Pat and I decided we would jointly report on what we learned. He has already written his part, which was published last week. I am going to reproduce portions of that letter, which highlight the conversation with Brian Kennedy and his team at the Buck Institute, and then add my own thoughts about our conversation with Mike West the previous night.<\/p>\n<p>(Note that I am excerpting Patrick\u2019s paid letter, which includes comments on companies in his portfolio, rather than his free weekly Transformational Technologies <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mauldineconomics.com\/go\/uu5qc-2\/MEC\">Tech Digest<\/a><\/em> service. We agreed that it was important to do so in this one case, given the huge significance of the research involved and the Buck Institute\u2019s relationship to it.) <\/p>\n<p>Essentially, we looked at two aspects of aging. The Buck Institute is focused on how to slow down the aging process and reduce the symptoms (such as chronic diseases) that come with aging. Dr. Mike West and his colleagues, as well as a few other firms and researchers, are focused on using our own pluripotent stem cells in ways that would allow us to repair organs in our bodies, thus giving us the opportunity to \u201cgrow younger\u201d again. (It\u2019s not quite that simple, as I\u2019ll try to explain later.) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mauldineconomics.com\/frontlinethoughts\/the-age-age\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very interesting article about the state of funding for aging research and about Buck and ex Geron Mike West. As I mentioned in last week\u2019s letter, I traveled to San Francisco last Monday with my friend Patrick Cox, who writes our Transformational Technology Alert newsletter. We had dinner with Dr. Mike West of Biotime [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18907","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18907"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69282,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18907\/revisions\/69282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}