Today I walk with Laura Deming, co-founder of Until, a reverse cryopreservation company in San Francisco. Laura got interested in longevity at eight, started working in Cynthia Kenyon's lab at UCSF at 12, and spent years backing the field as an investor through the Longevity Fund. She now builds technology to pause biological time, starting with donor organs and building toward whole-body medical hibernation.
We get into:
-The conference talk she was not supposed to give, and how it ended her VC chapter
-What "transcend death" actually means once you press on it, tested with a teleporter to Mars
-Why San Francisco kills intuition, and the breakdown in her mid-20s that made her protect hers
-The big magnet, and rewarming an organ in about a minute
-Why transplant patients live inside a two-hour radius with a pager on them at all times
so much more!
Timestamps
00:00:00 Trailer 00:00:48 Intro 00:01:35 "I love science" and the things that have stayed constant 00:05:13 A childhood without rules and reconstructing what normal means 00:07:03 What is actually worth preserving when a person dies 00:13:00 The Dreaming Machine and the film that never got made 00:19:02 When you could not say the word aging out loud in the lab 00:22:55 Emailing Cynthia Kenyon at 12 and the day her life started 00:28:49 The talk that made her leave VC for cryo 00:32:39 San Francisco as an intuition killer 00:35:04 Molecules in clockwork synchrony and feeling loved by the universe 00:44:39 The big magnet and rewarming an organ in about a minute 00:46:19 The two-hour radius and the pager that runs a transplant patient's life 00:53:50 Her best arguments against her own work 00:58:44 The teleporter to Mars and what dies in the process 01:01:42 Outro
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