They've made their money in Silicon Valley. And with their technology, they've ushered in the world that we live in today. Some now want to solve the "problem" of death. Can they? Show more
It's a big leap from mouse to human, but one clinic took the results of Irina and Mike Conboy's blood plasma rejuvenation research and brought it to the people - for a price. Show more
The Silicon Valley technologists who are injecting themselves with the plasma of young people were inspired by the grotesque - yet genius - research of two UC Berkeley researchers. Show more
Ambrosia Plasma promised to bring the anti-aging properties of young blood to the world. But does what appeared to work in mice in the lab work for humans in the world? Show more
What will it take to get a drug that treats aging itself - not just the diseases of aging - to market? An entrepreneur works within the system to usher in a new era of longer life. Show more
Extending healthy life by 20 or so years isn’t good enough for some tech entrepreneurs who want to eliminate death entirely. Show more
Cryptocurrency billionaire Vitalik Buterin’s dream is to create a state with a constitution that says aging is bad, life extension is good. Show more
A new philosophical movement is gathering steam in Silicon Valley. it promises immortality through technology. This movement is led by Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom. Show more
An immortality acolyte describes how he became entranced by the idea of a techno-utopia, but was excommunicated when he asked how far his fellow immortalists would go to get there. Show more
If immortality is inevitable, and we are on the cusp of reaching it thanks to advances in AI, how could it destabilise our social fabric? Show more
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Over the last 100 years, we’ve seen global life expectancy double. Could it happen again? Aleks Krotoski explores the frontiers of the extreme longevity pioneers. Show more