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Neil Freiman

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Morning Brew Daily
The World Cup Has a Ticket Problem & The First Ever Reverse-Aging Drug

Yamanaka factor, as you mentioned, this was named after this guy in Japan, a scientist and a surgeon, Shinya Yamanaka, who in 2007 was the first person to first successfully reprogram adult human cells.

Morning Brew Daily
The World Cup Has a Ticket Problem & The First Ever Reverse-Aging Drug

And he won that Nobel Prize for it.

Morning Brew Daily
The World Cup Has a Ticket Problem & The First Ever Reverse-Aging Drug

Then the other person to know is David Sinclair.

Morning Brew Daily
The World Cup Has a Ticket Problem & The First Ever Reverse-Aging Drug

He is the co-founder of Life Biosciences, the company that's doing this particular study.

Morning Brew Daily
The World Cup Has a Ticket Problem & The First Ever Reverse-Aging Drug

He is probably the most controversial but most accomplished scientist in this particular field.

Morning Brew Daily
The World Cup Has a Ticket Problem & The First Ever Reverse-Aging Drug

He has talked aboutβ€”he runs a lab in Harvard, which has spawned a lot of these companies.

Morning Brew Daily
The World Cup Has a Ticket Problem & The First Ever Reverse-Aging Drug

He has talked about bodies being like computers that can be programmed and reprogrammed and rebooted.

Morning Brew Daily
The World Cup Has a Ticket Problem & The First Ever Reverse-Aging Drug

So he's been a huge booster of this.

Morning Brew Daily
The World Cup Has a Ticket Problem & The First Ever Reverse-Aging Drug

At the same time of him being a huge booster, he's alsoβ€”

Morning Brew Daily
The World Cup Has a Ticket Problem & The First Ever Reverse-Aging Drug

made some pretty, maybe not outlandish claims, but very ambitious claims about longevity science where others in his field have sort of pushed back and said, look, he said stuff like, yeah, the person who's going to live to 150 years old has already been born.

Morning Brew Daily
The World Cup Has a Ticket Problem & The First Ever Reverse-Aging Drug

And some of the people who have worked with him in the past have called him a snake oil salesman and talked up his accomplishments a little too much.

Morning Brew Daily
The World Cup Has a Ticket Problem & The First Ever Reverse-Aging Drug

But at the same time, they concede that whatever life biosciences is doing with this first human trial and the fact that there's so many companies in this space and they're really making advancements,

Morning Brew Daily
The World Cup Has a Ticket Problem & The First Ever Reverse-Aging Drug

could not have happened without him.

Morning Brew Daily
The World Cup Has a Ticket Problem & The First Ever Reverse-Aging Drug

You know how good it feels to finish up a project that's taken you months?

Morning Brew Daily
The World Cup Has a Ticket Problem & The First Ever Reverse-Aging Drug

For the Sagrada Familia, it's been 144 years.

Morning Brew Daily
The World Cup Has a Ticket Problem & The First Ever Reverse-Aging Drug

Today, Pope Leo will be in Barcelona to bless the completion of the world's tallest church, whose torture construction began in 1882.

Morning Brew Daily
The World Cup Has a Ticket Problem & The First Ever Reverse-Aging Drug

While a moment for celebration, it's also sure to inflame debates about overtourism in a city that's fed up with out-of-towners.

Morning Brew Daily
The World Cup Has a Ticket Problem & The First Ever Reverse-Aging Drug

The Sagrada Familia is the masterwork of legendary Spanish architect Antony GaudΓ­, whose jaw-dropping Dr. Seussian buildings you've no doubt seen if you've been to Barcelona.

Morning Brew Daily
The World Cup Has a Ticket Problem & The First Ever Reverse-Aging Drug

The church's final tower is going to be inaugurated today on the 100th anniversary of his death, June 10th, 1926, when it was just one quarter completed.

Morning Brew Daily
The World Cup Has a Ticket Problem & The First Ever Reverse-Aging Drug

When asked when the Sagrada Familia would be fully built, Gaudi replied with his most famous quote, "'My client is not in a hurry, that client being God.'"