Putin's $26 Billion Anti-Aging Initiative Explores Organ Printing and Animal-to-Human Transplants
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Srishti Kapoor
2d ago· 4 min readenNews
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched a $26 billion state-funded longevity initiative aimed at combating Russia's high mortality rates. The program explores radical anti-aging methods including bio-printing (3D printing of organs) and xenotransplantation (transplanting animal organs into humans). Achievements so far include bioprinted human cartilage tissue and a mouse thyroid gland, with the long-term goal of achieving human organ replacement by the end of the decade.
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The program, a state priority, is looking at methods as radical as bio-printing and xenotransplantation
Achievements so far include bioprinted human cartilage tissue and a mouse thyroid gland, and the long-term goal is human organ replacement by the end of the decade.
Achievements so far include bioprinted human cartilage tissue and a mouse thyroid gland, and the long-term goal is human organ replacement by the end of the decade.
