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The State and Future of Longevity with Nathan Cheng

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The Future of Stem Cells

Ravi Agrawal: The stem cell revolution is still very much in progress. In 2009, a drug called racomycin was able to increase the lifespan of mice by about 15%. And now people like Matt Kaverlein at the University of Washington is using this drug in a small study for dogs. So that's really exciting. We're basically waiting for the first success in humans, like a proof of concept in humans,. Once we achieve that, I think this space will really, really take off.

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