{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Luba Show","title":"She Raised $100M+ to Reversibly Cryopreserve Humans — Laura Deming (Until)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3715,"description":"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. \nWe get into:\n-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 timesso much more!\nTimestamps\n\n00:00:00 Trailer \n00:00:48 Intro \n00:01:35 \"I love science\" and the things that have stayed constant \n00:05:13 A childhood without rules and reconstructing what normal means \n00:07:03 What is actually worth preserving when a person dies \n00:13:00 The Dreaming Machine and the film that never got made \n00:19:02 When you could not say the word aging out loud in the lab \n00:22:55 Emailing Cynthia Kenyon at 12 and the day her life started \n00:28:49 The talk that made her leave VC for cryo \n00:32:39 San Francisco as an intuition killer\n00:35:04 Molecules in clockwork synchrony and feeling loved by the universe \n00:44:39 The big magnet and rewarming an organ in about a minute\n00:46:19 The two-hour radius and the pager that runs a transplant patient's life \n00:53:50 Her best arguments against her own work \n00:58:44 The teleporter to Mars and what dies in the process \n01:01:42 Outro\nFollow Laura\nX: https://x.com/LauraDeming?lang=en\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-deming-b255362a/ \nWebsite: https://www.untillabs.com/\nFollow Luba I\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifeoflubaa/ \nLinkedIn:...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/I2NZEo1VpOK6gNlq1ogpu-hfbOWZMEOuC4oDFfuUFGk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zODI0/ZWE4OTEyOGMzODcw/OGI2ODY5ZWY0YTIz/YzQzMi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}