Matter Bio studies DNA from animals and centenarians to find healthy ageing genes
Endpoints News - 22-Apr-2025The aim is to slow ageing by protecting DNA, not reversing it
George Church
Harvard Professor and PersonalGenomes.org Founder
George McDonald Church is an American geneticist, molecular engineer, and chemist. As of 2015, he is Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard and MIT, and was a founding member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard. As of March 2017, Church serves as a member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Board of Sponsors.
Professor at Harvard & MIT, Director of PersonalGenomes.org, which provides the world's only open-access information on human Genomic, Environmental & Trait data (GET). His 1984 Harvard PhD included the first methods for direct genome sequencing, molecular multiplexing & barcoding. These led to the first genome sequence (pathogen, Helicobacter pylori) in 1994 . His innovations have contributed to nearly all "next generation" DNA sequencing methods and companies (CGI-BGI, Life, Illumina, Nanopore). This plus his lab's work on chip-DNA-synthesis, gene editing and stem cell engineering resulted in founding additional application-based companies spanning fields of medical diagnostics ( Knome/PierianDx, Alacris, Nebula Genomics, Veritas Genetics ) & synthetic biology / therapeutics (AbVitro/Juno, Gen9/Ginkgo, Editas, Egenesis, enEvolv, WarpDrive ).
Personal longevity regime
From Modern Healthspans interview (last few minutes of last video) on YouTube.
- Doesn't do anything special
- Exercises
- Vegan - with additional nutrients (e.g. omega-3) from vegan sources
- Metformin (as has tendency to prediabetes)
Visit website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_M._Church
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Details last updated 21-Nov-2019
George Church News
GC Therapeutics raises $75 million to transform cell therapy
Longevity Technology - 23-Sep-2024The startup leverages its TFome™ platform for rapid and efficient iPSC programming
XPRIZE Launches a $101 Million Healthspan Competition
Live Forever Club - 29-Nov-202310 years of functional age-reversal in 65-80 year olds within the next 7 years... bring it on!!!
Lifespan.io interviews George Church about recent research and future anti-ageing treatments
Lifespan.io (LEAF) - 14-Mar-2023Is involved in many longevity companies ranging from improving gene therapy delivery to supplements
Lifespan of middle-aged mice increased by a third with telomerase gene therapy
CISION PR Newswire - 19-May-2022Treatment used proprietary CMV vector which is able to deliver multiple genes into the nucleus
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George Church is also referenced in the following:
Aging Code Summit
11-Jun-2025
Summit exploring the Aging Code through AI organised by Longevity Global (Cambridge, MA, USA)
Alcor Conference 2022
03-Jun-2022 to 05-Jun-2022
Conference about cryonics and life extension organized by Alcor with David Chalmers and George Church as featured speakers
Could DNA nanorobots cure cancer
DNA nanobots will soon be tried in a critically ill leukemia patient
Ending Age-Related Diseases 2022
11-Aug-2022 to 14-Aug-2022
Virtual Conference for Rejuvenation Biotechnology and Life Extension organized by Lifespan Extension Advocacy Foundation
George Church: Breaking Boundaries of Possibility
03-May-2023
Online event with George Church on Gene Therapy and Longevity organized by Oxford Society of Ageing and Longevity (FREE)
Longevity Investors Conference 2022
28-Sep-2022 to 30-Sep-2022
Conference gathering longevity experts and investors at one place hosted by Marc P. Bernegger and Dr. Tobias Reichmuth
Longevity State Conference 2024
13-May-2024
Conference about longevity, its social changes and aging organised by Vitalism Foundation (Cofrentes, Spain)
Longevity Summit 2023
05-Dec-2023 to 06-Dec-2023
Summit speaking about the future of medicine, eliminating diseases of aging brought by Longevity SF
Longevity Summit Dublin 2022
18-Sep-2022 to 20-Sep-2022
Event gathering Global Longevity and Rejuvenation community in Dublin with many longevity movement superstars as speakers
Longevity Summit Dublin 2023
17-Aug-2023 to 20-Aug-2023
Club discount available - click here
Event gathering Global Longevity and Rejuvenation community in Dublin with many longevity movement superstars as speakers
XPRIZE Launches a $101 Million Health Competition
Live stream of XPRIZE Healthspan launch on YouTube
