The Methuselah Foundation Blog: Welcome to All!
I'm pleased to note that the Methuselah Foundation has launched this blog, the better to communicate with supporters, donors and the world at large, as well as relay news on important milestones and progress in Foundation activities. A great deal is taking place and we'd like you to know about it!
New discoveries in the realm of biological science reveal common mechanisms are shared by age-related diseases and conditions. More signficantly, research suggests that these mechanisms can be modified. These new discoveries indicate that more benefit could be realized by treating age-related diseases not as distinct disorders, but rather as a collection of syndromes tied together by a few common threads. We believe the time has come to declare the arrival of the real "war on aging" and use our new tools to attack aging at its root, the fundamental biological processes which drive it.The Methuselah Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) volunteer organization dedicated to:
- raising public awareness of the near-term potential for evidence-based interventions in the aging process, by exploiting emerging biological and genetic science .
- conducting research focused on remediating crucial but currently neglected aspects of the human aging process through the nascent Institute of Biomedical Gerontology.
- offering the multi-million dollar Methuselah Mouse Prize (Mprize), in the spirit of the Ansari X Prize, to be awarded for significant, scientifically reproducible life extension in already aged lab mice, to create a "tipping point" in anti-aging science.
Tremendous progress has been made in the past few years - all thanks to the generosity and dedication of Foundation volunteers, donors and supporters. Thank you to all, and we will do our best to ensure that many more exciting years of progress lie ahead.