Meet Thiel Fellow Kai Micah Mills who's advancing cryonics for pets

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Meet Thiel Fellow Kai Micah Mills who's advancing cryonics for pets
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This 24-year-old wants to freeze dead pets with the hope that science can one day bring them back to life – and he's got backing from Peter Thiel to get started

, is quietly working on advancing organ cryopreservation. Deming's new startup, Lorentz Bio, hasn't been previously reported.

Russian millionaire Dmitry Itskov, who had sold his media empire and funded research with the goal of cheating deathFor years Mills sat on the idea. He sold his server business at 16 and started another company, Branch, making virtual offices where workers moved around rooms like a video game. Branch rode pandemic trends to the tune of $1.6 million from investors like Homebrew and.

"We have such a long way to go to curing aging," Mill said."It didn't seem like something that was plausible in my lifetime."For any number of reasons, animals make better cryonics-guinea pigs than humans. It's cheaper to freeze pets because of their small size, Mills explained, and it avoids. But their big advantage is that there's higher predictability around their deaths.

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