The world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, set to invest in anti-ageing technologies that might increase the average human lifespan by 50 years and above.

Jeff Bezos who is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, and computer engineer, a founder and executive chairman of Amazon, where he previously served as the chairman, president, and CEO, he is one of several rich investors in Altos Labs, a Silicon Valley tech startup developing on untested – and perhaps deadly – new life extension technology, according to reports.

Hundreds of scientists from prominent universities have been enlisted by the new company to study how cells age and how to reverse the process.

This “reprogramming method” promises to mend and regenerate normal cells by returning them to a “primitive” stem cell state – similar to how cells operate when a person is born.
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a Spanish scientist, is one of those hired. He is well-known for his controversial work combining human and monkey embryos, and he believes he can increase life expectancy by 50 years.

When Belmonte examined his findings on dwell mice, they confirmed indicators of age reversal – nevertheless, some mice developed lethal tumors known as teratomas.

Altos Labs hopes to now add this and different analysis till it could actually reverse ageing in each part of the physique – however, it could be many years earlier than the applied sciences are a match

Bezos is claimed to have been within the subject for a while, after beforehand investing in anti-aging firm Unity Biotechnology.

In a closing letter to Amazon shareholders, Bezos additionally quoted the atheist Richard Dawkins, saying: “Staving off the loss of life is a factor it’s important to work at… if dwelling issues didn’t work actively to forestall it, they’d ultimately merge into their environment, and stop to exist as autonomous beings.”