The Download: a secretive antiaging drug and joining virtual power plants
This newsletter covers a controversial anti-aging drug research project and the growing trend of virtual power plants. It highlights how utility companies are leveraging household devices to manage energy demand.
Why it matters
Advances in longevity science and decentralized energy management represent significant shifts in health and infrastructure technology.
Plus: A judge has blocked the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic.
This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.
I knew I’d officially become a “longevity influencer” when a company called Generation Lab offered me the chance to write about—and even receive—their new rejuvenation treatment.
This wasn’t just any antiaging treatment, either. A company fact sheet says that it “blocks the systemic spread of aging in the bloodstream, reawakens the body’s own repair mechanism and restores health and youth to multiple tissues.”
The approach is based on research by Generation Lab’s irascible scientific founder, Irina Conboy. She found that joining the circulatory systems of old and young mice improved the old animals’ ability to heal from injury.
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