Organ Trail

About this episode

Mangesh explores the quest for immortality through organ replacement, featuring insights from journalists, hackers, and scientists.

The game’s afoot! Many powerful people—from world leaders to Silicon Valley billionaires—have been whispering about the possibility of living forever via organ replacement. But is their dream a reality, or is it still in the realm of sci-fi? Mangesh learns about Vladimir Putin’s longevity obsession from an exiled Russian journalist, spends an illuminating afternoon with a white-hat hacker, and meets a scientist who’s rebuilding brains, one cell at a time. Finally, he tracks down the co-founder of a mysterious start-up that’s rumored to be doing things no one ever thought possible… until now. Read Proekt’s coverage of Putin’s health , and Foreign Policy on death rates for Russian soldiers   Read Nakoa Po’s Sundial Therapeutics Substack Support your local library Visit R3 Bio’s website , and read coverage in Wired and MIT Technology Review Special thanks to Azadi Records and Bliss Samsa for their beautiful tracks, and Botany for the score.  Episode collage art by Vahini Shori . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Mangesh

Topics covered

• organ replacement
• longevity
• health technology
• biohacking
• Silicon Valley
• journalism
• scientific research

Keywords

• organ replacement
• longevity
• Vladimir Putin
• biohacking
• health technology
• Silicon Valley
• scientific research

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Proekt, Foreign Policy, Sundial Therapeutics, R3 Bio, Azadi Records, Bliss Samsa, Botany, Wired, MIT Technology Review

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