Entrepreneur Gives $100,000 to SENS Research

Spam Arrest founder Brian Cartmell has stepped up to donate $100,000 to the Methuselah Foundation: "It's my privilege to be able to financially contribute to the continued and successful operation of The Methuselah Foundation. Too often, people dismiss researchers such as Dr. Aubrey de Grey for engaging in what they consider pie-in-the-sky science, but it's my opinion that Dr. de Grey encourages a creative and intelligent approach towards alleviating the suffering that unnecessarily accompanies the aging process. By focusing research on the damage that occurs at the cellular and molecular levels, the scientists involved with The Methuselah Foundation can potentially offer radical new solutions to our current litany of age-related physical and mental dysfunctions - and I like radical! ... Mr. Cartmell's donation will be invested in SENS-related research. SENS is an engineering approach that aims to obviate the causes of human aging. ... this donation will attract $50,000 in matching contributions from the $3 Million fund established in 2006 by Facebook angel investor Peter Thiel. This new donation will help to extend Methuselah Foundation research into the bioremediation of damaging age-related byproducts in tissue, the protection of fragile mitochondrial DNA and future programs addressing other aspects of SENS, each tackling a specific aspect of age-related biochemical and cellular damage."