Methuselah Foundation announced a $1 million competition to encourage innovation that would move medicine away from animal testing. The page says the 1938 Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act requires every drug to be tested on animals.
The article argues that animal research does not fulfill its intended purpose and says in vivo testing became standard after the 1938 Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act required animal testing for drugs. It notes the law followed more than 100 poisoning deaths.
Biotechnology company Leucadia Therapeutics LLC and Methuselah Foundation, a public charity incentivizing regenerative medicine innovation, announced a partnership to develop a treatment strategy for Alzheimer’s disease.
The Deep Space Food Challenge opened Phase 2 in partnership with NASA. Phase 1 brought teams from the U.S., Canada and elsewhere together to design food production systems for future deep-space travel.
Methuselah Foundation contributed $1 million to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine to fund its development of engineered replacement brain structures.
Methuselah Foundation is a non-profit medical charity focused on extending healthy lifespan and making 90 the new 50 by 2030. It supports longevity, biotechnology, regenerative medicine and life sciences through ventures, research, projects and prizes.
