Biological Time Travel: How Cryopreservation Could Transform Medicine (Laura Deming, CEO & co-founder of Until)
From a child prodigy in a genetics lab to building a company that can pause life itself, Laura Deming has made a career out of chasing time. At just eight years old she became obsessed with aging. At eleven, she joined Cynthia Kenyon’s pioneering longevity lab. At seventeen, she launched The Longevity Fund—one of the first venture firms dedicated to extending human healthspan. Now, she’s tackling her boldest challenge yet: building a “pause button” for biology.As the co-founder of Until, Laura is developing reversible cryopreservation: the ability to cool living tissue to ultra-low temperatures, hold it there, and then bring it back fully functional.
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Speaker A: I spent a decade of my life trying to answer this question of, is there one technical problem which, if completely solved and attacked, would get me the thing that I want, which is to give everyone as much healthy years of life as they want? Speaker B: When you started to think about longevity and mortality, what was the state of play in the industry and how did you start to familiarize yourself with that? Speaker A: Every time people got together to talk about longevity, it felt like it had to be secretive.
It felt like it had to be hidden. It's just so obviously the heart of so many different things you're not supposed to talk about or you're supposed to talk about in certain ways. Now it's like some of the best next-gen talent, they grew up with this idea that longevity is the biggest problem in medicine. It is the most interesting one. I think we're going to see really incredible things next decade for sure. Speaker B: How would you just explain reversible cryo to someone? Speaker A: I think what really captured my imagination around it was the idea of time traveling to the future.
What if you had a spaceship pod that you just walk into and then you can walk out of it 5 years in the future? Speaker B: Hey, I'm Mario and this is The Generalist Podcast. As the saying goes, the future is already here, It's just not evenly distributed. Each episode, I have deep conversations with the founders, investors, and thinkers who are living in the future to help you see it earlier, understand it better, and benefit from it. Today, I'm speaking with Laura Deming, the founder of Until. Speaker C: Laura's story is an unusual one.
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