Hunt for the secret of immortality. The dream of American billionaires – Foreign

“By 2030, ninety years will be the new 50”: this is the slogan of the Methuselah Foundation, the Methuselah foundation, a foundation that does not emerge from an old science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick or from a fulminating (pre) vision of Foster Wallace. The Methuselah Foundation has really existed for about twenty years. In his laboratories one of the richest men in the world has taken seriously his game of dice with God. The important thing is to unhinge reality. The dream of Peter Thiel, Zuckerberg’s former Facebook colleague, is to remain – not as an avatar but as a human being – forever young. Young he, also cofounder of PayPal, considered the most influential man in Silicon Valley, and young his likes, the billionaires who can afford it. According to what was recently published in an investigation by the “Guardian” as Peter Thiel, who has long invested millions of dollars in the Methuselah Foundation, a non-profit organization headquartered in Virginia specializing in anti-aging scientific research, a handful of billionaires of Silicon Valley is now funding the birth, scheduled for spring, of the Altos Lab institute with various offices in the US and UK. Among the priorities of Altos – which has already hired the Nobel Prize winner Shinya Yamanaka – the development of a recent discovery: the effect of interrupting the process of “reprogramming” of human skin cells into stem cells, is the rejuvenation of the same . Twenty-five years less in a flash, more or less, it seems. In the race of billionaires to conquer the technological elixir of perennial youth, Peter Thiel is the forerunner. King maker for many of the startups, Facebook’s first major investor (even if right now he left the board of Meta to devote himself to supporting Trump in the mid-term elections), traitor (lo …