Anti-aging medicine is so hot even this controversial idea has investors

That’s the slogan of a new Harvard University spinout that plans to put millions behind a hotly disputed rejuvenation discovery. The startup, Elevian, which is based in San Francisco, says it intends to explore whether daily injections of a protein called GDF11 can promote “the body’s ability to restore itself” and eventually treat conditions including coronary artery disease, Alzheimer’s, and the muscle-loss condition sarcopenia.
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