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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