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CELLS: Siddhartha Mukherjee on the Breakthroughs That Are Revolutionizing Medicine

The Next Big Idea

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Is It Possible to Extend Life?

There's been a lot of talk recently about extending the human lifespan. Running a trial for the extension of life is not an easy study, as you can imagine. Name a single company or investor that's willing to invest 15-year money in such a project. "My interest, and I suspect an interest of a lot of people, is in suffering"

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