article_snippet.sent: In the last few years, major anti-aging companies, such as Google's Calico and J. Craig Venture's new San Diego-based genome sequencing start-up Human Longevity Inc, have launched.
article_snippet.sent: Along side this, Billionaires like Larry Ellison, Sergey Brin, Peter Thiel, Paul F. Glenn, and Dmitry Itskov are also funding research into longevity science.
article_snippet.sent: Google has invested in taxi firms, smart thermostats and even artificial intelligence
article_snippet.sent: Google Ventures' president Bill Maris has already ploughed money into genetics firms and cancer diagnostic startups and said: 'genetics firms and cancer diagnostic startups have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision.
article_snippet.sent: Google Ventures' president Bill Maris has advised Aurolab in the development of a hydrophobic acrylic lens for cataract blindness, and helped develop Calico.
article_snippet.sent: Calico is a research and development company set up in 2013 by Google and Apple to tackle 'ageing and associated diseases.'
article_snippet.sent: Google co-founder Larry Page said Calico would focus on 'health, wellbeing and longevity' and Calico Calico partnered with AbbVie to open a research centre into neurodegeneration and cancer.