Google-Backed Calico Project Will Investigate Anti-Aging Technologies

The Internet search and advertising giant has tapped Genentech and Apple chairman Art Levinson to lead a new initiative that will explore aging and related diseases. Google will invest an undisclosed amount to launch the latest Silicon Valley-funded effort to extend human longevity.

Google Inc. and veteran technology and biotech executive Art Levinson are launching Calico, an independent company that plans to address aging and related diseases. The Silicon Valley powerhouse revealed the venture Sept. 18, and made an investment of undisclosed size in the project.

Levinson, who will serve as Calico’s CEO alongside his other posts, brings credibility to a project that seems enormously ambitious....

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