{"id":82276,"date":"2018-09-03T08:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T15:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/rejuvenation-roundup-august-2018"},"modified":"2018-09-03T08:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T15:22:23","slug":"rejuvenation-roundup-august-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/rejuvenation-roundup-august-2018","title":{"rendered":"Rejuvenation Roundup August 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rejuvenation-roundup-august-20182.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LEAF\u2019s August 2018 roundup is out!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>We hope August has treated you well\u2014it certainly did so for life extension, as this has been another month full of great news for the field. Don\u2019t be upset with the departure of summer and the arrival of autumn, because little by little, we\u2019re getting close to pushing away the autumn of years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More investments against aging<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The fight against aging is being taken more and more seriously by a growing number of investors, who realize the world-changing potential of effective rejuvenative treatments as well as the great opportunity for profit. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juvenescence.ltd\/\">Juvenescence Limited<\/a>, which recently closed a 10-million deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ichortherapeutics.com\/\">Ichor Therapeutics<\/a>\u2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/antoxerene.com\/\">Antoxerene<\/a>, has now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/juvenescence-agex\/\">announced<\/a> the purchase of 14.4 million shares of BioTime\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agexinc.com\/\">AgeX Therapeutics<\/a>\u2014a company focused on extending healthy human lifespan\u2014for a total of over $43 million. AgeX\u2019s work focuses on telomerase upregulation and cell therapies, and Juvenescence has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/30bb0752-6d5e-11e8-92d3-6c13e5c92914\">invested<\/a> in AgeX before. The news has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fightaging.org\/archives\/2018\/08\/juvenesence-expands-its-support-of-agex-therapeutics\/\">reported and commented on<\/a> on Fight Aging! as well.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/rejuvenation-roundup-august-2018\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/rejuvenation-roundup-august-2018\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEAF\u2019s August 2018 roundup is out! We hope August has treated you well\u2014it certainly did so for life extension, as this has been another month full of great news for the field. Don\u2019t be upset with the departure of summer and the arrival of autumn, because little by little, we\u2019re getting close to pushing away [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82276","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\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}