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“We’ve reached an inflection point,” says Greg Bailey, CEO of Juvenescence Ltd - a drug development and artificial intelligence company focused on ageing and age-related diseases: “where our stem cell company is interacting our machine learning company and then they are both able to interact with our associated pure scientists who are working on the biology of aging to find novel therapies.”
For Bailey, this ecosystem is very important. He sees the combination of small molecule drugs, genetic engineering, stem cell research and senolytic drugs working across disciplines to create advances in lifespan: “The percentage of cells in your knee that are senescent when you have osteoarthritis, could be anywhere from 10-30%,” says Bailey.
“If we have a product that destroys 30% of the tissue in your knee, you’re not walking out of my clinic. But what if I gave you that drug and then inject pluripotent stem cells into your knee and that regenerates your knee, not with 70 year old or 60 year old cells, but one day or one week old cells? That’s what we’re excited to focus on at Juvenescence.”