STAT+: No more ‘playing God’: How the longevity field is trying to recast its work as serious science

A small but growing community of CEOs and scientists are trying to recast the story of longevity so it's digestible to the drug-making mainstream: less cover of Time magazine, more…

SAN FRANCISCO — “Why is it in popular culture, if you want to live forever, you are evil and you want to kill babies on the side?” says Martin Borch Jensen.

It’s fast approaching 10 p.m. on the first night of the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, and among a couple stragglers at a dinner for longevity CEOs, scientists, and investors, the conversation has turned from the practical or merely social to the philosophical.

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