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by reasonattlm 3083 days ago
No-one in the field is particularly impressed with Calico at this point in time. Calico is the second coming of the Ellison Medical Foundation, which is to say they're just analyzing the details of aging and expanding on the NIH budget. Nothing they are known to be doing is likely to have the slightest impact on the progression of rejuvenation therapies.

E.g. some resources in which people are less than complimentary:

http://www.sens.org/research/research-blog/question-month-16...

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603087/googles-long-stran...

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/4/27/15409672/go...

There are plenty of others if you want to go look for them.