Dr. David Sinclair

You don't want to rush into it like people used to.

And being able to have children in your 50s and 60s, I think, would be a great gift to humanity.

That's my personal view.

Some people may, you know, for whatever reason, disagree with that.

But I think that the pressures to have children before 35 typically are just extreme and unfair, but also that it'll help.

us maintain the human population, because by 2050, we're going to start going in a bad decline and earlier in many Western countries.

And without humans, you know, absent android robots everywhere, we're going to have a deficiency of human capital and human productivity.

And this is, I would argue with Elon, that this is the best solution to that lack of humans.

It's just keep people healthy and alive and productive for longer.

Yeah, so my wonderful student, Nalat, is doing her PhD on this.

And what we've hypothesized and now tested is the idea, again, based on the information theory of aging, is that cancer is...

expressing those genes differently in the same way that aging is a cellular identity crisis cancer is a cellular identity crisis and if we can rejuvenate an old cell to be normal and turn on the right genes again we should be able to do that for a cancer cell and either make it normal or

Or if it tries to be normal and wakes up from its zombie-like state, it might even kill itself.

And that's what we're finding in my lab.

Nalat's work has shown that a majority of cancers that we've grown in the lab will die and shrink in an animal if you try to reverse their age.

through the injection that you were referring to earlier on.

Yeah, we can do it a couple of ways.

One is using those three genes that rejuvenate the epigenome and make cells young again.

The one for the eye, the same technology for the eye we're using in cancer cells.

But we also have this chemical drink that we can give to animals or to put on the cells, and that also wakes the cancer cells up.