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Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones | MIT Technology Review

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The ultimate plan to live forever is a brand new body.

Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content After operating in secrecy for years, a startup company called R3 Bio, in Richmond, California, suddenly shared details about its work last week—saying it had raised money to create nonsentient monkey “organ sacks” as an alternative to animal testing. In an interview with Wired , R3 listed three investors: billionaire Tim Draper, the Singapore-based fund Immortal Dragons, and life-extension investors LongGame Ventures. But there is more to the story. And R3 doesn’t want that story told. MIT

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