{"id":204534,"date":"2025-01-25T19:04:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T01:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/sam-altman-backed-retro-biosciences-to-raise-1bn-for-project-to-extend-human-life"},"modified":"2025-01-25T19:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T01:04:47","slug":"sam-altman-backed-retro-biosciences-to-raise-1bn-for-project-to-extend-human-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/sam-altman-backed-retro-biosciences-to-raise-1bn-for-project-to-extend-human-life","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman-backed Retro Biosciences to raise $1bn for project to extend human life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sam-altman-backed-retro-biosciences-to-raise-1bn-for-project-to-extend-human-life2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LEV is upon us.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, who provided the initial $180mn to seed the start-up, will put in more money in the series A. The company is in talks with family offices, venture capitalists and sovereign wealth funds, as well as a US \u201chyperscaler\u201d data centre to provide computing power to run the AI models it uses to create and test its treatments.<\/p>\n<p>In partnership with OpenAI, the start-up has built a bespoke AI model that designs proteins to temporarily turn regular cells into stem cells, which it says can reverse their ageing process.<\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco-based biotech will use the money to fund clinical trials for three drugs, including a potential treatment for Alzheimer\u2019s disease, which will be tested in an early stage study in Australia this year. It is also working on drugs for rejuvenating blood and brain cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEV is upon us. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, who provided the initial $180mn to seed the start-up, will put in more money in the series A. The company is in talks with family offices, venture capitalists and sovereign wealth funds, as well as a US \u201chyperscaler\u201d data centre to provide computing power to run [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204534","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}