I don’t know much about this newspaper in Spain, but the articles I’ve seen on longevity are very good for a mass-market publication:
A year ago, a disconcerting project was presented to the world: a multinational company with four Nobel Prize winners on board,a huge $3-bilion budget and a very ambitious objective — to extend how long humans can live in good health. For months, the company, called Altos Labs, secretly signed dozens of the best scientists in the world, offering them salaries of more than $1 million a year. In March, Altos Labs — backed in the shadows by the Russian-Israeli billionaire Yuri Milner — recruited Spanish biologist Pura Muñoz Cánoves, winner of Spain’s National Research Award, who until then, was professor at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.
Muñoz Cánoves, 61, revealed the mechanisms of aging and muscle regeneration. Her Spanish laboratory designed strategies that managed to repair the muscle tissue of old mice, increasing the self-cleaning of their cells and eliminating damaged ones. At the Altos Labs headquarters in San Diego, Muñoz Cánoves and her colleagues are now focusing on a new paradigm: the aim is no longer to fix what is damaged, but to literally rejuvenate the human body.
We are beginning to understand how to turn back the clock. Matt Kaeberlein and Brian K. Kennedy said in 2009 that there may be a pill that will make us stay younger longer, but it was still science fiction. They were likely referring to rapamycin or metformin pills, which prevent aging. What remains a long way off is actually reversing diseases associated with aging — turning back the clock.