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VitaDAO Letter: ’Tis the Season (Of Governance)
March 28, 2023
Sarah Friday
Awareness
Awareness
VitaDAO Letter: ’Tis the Season (Of Governance)
Early this year, VitaDAO announced a $4.1 million fundraising round, that included strategic members and longevity enthusiasts such as Pfizer Ventures, Shine Capital, L1 Digital, Beaker DAO, Balaji Srinivasan, and Joe Betts-LaCroix.
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The Mouse Longevity Chronicles: Unraveling Aging with Dr. Richard Miller during The Aging Science podcast by VitaDAO
March 23, 2023
Awareness
Longevity
Awareness, Longevity
The Mouse Longevity Chronicles: Unraveling Aging with Dr. Richard Miller during The Aging Science podcast by VitaDAO
In this podcast, I (@aging_scientist) spoke with Dr. Rich Miller about the ins and outs of mouse aging.
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‍February Longevity Research Newsletter‍
March 10, 2023
Rhys Anderson & Maria Marinova
Awareness
Longevity
Awareness, Longevity
‍February Longevity Research Newsletter‍
Following our successful fundraise of $4.1 million (check out the Forbes article), a new wave of projects are in the pipeline to be funded. First up in 2023 is Brain Tissue Replacement Therapy with Jean Hebert
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Exploring the Frontiers of Science: Breakthroughs, Funding Challenges, and Replication Crisis with Alaattin Kaya during The Aging Science podcast by VitaDAO
March 9, 2023
Awareness
Longevity
Awareness, Longevity
Exploring the Frontiers of Science: Breakthroughs, Funding Challenges, and Replication Crisis with Alaattin Kaya during The Aging Science podcast by VitaDAO
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January Longevity Research Newsletter
February 3, 2023
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
Longevity
Awareness
Longevity, Awareness
January Longevity Research Newsletter
The Longevity field is starting the year strongly with new updated Hallmarks of aging, exactly 10 years after the original paper was published. So time to update your introduction slides with the figure we will see in every presentation for the next
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VitaDAO Closes $4.1m Fundraising Round With Pfizer And Shine Capital
January 30, 2023
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Longevity
Awareness, Longevity
VitaDAO Closes $4.1m Fundraising Round With Pfizer And Shine Capital
2023 kicks off with strong support for longevity research and a huge step for decentralized science(DeSci)
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VitaDAO Letter: Year in Review + Interview with VitaDAO Co-initiator, Tyler Golato
January 17, 2023
Sarah Friday
Awareness
Awareness
VitaDAO Letter: Year in Review + Interview with VitaDAO Co-initiator, Tyler Golato
What a year it has been! 2022 was a year full of growth, science, and a whole lot of funded longevity research. In the 1.5 years since VitaDAO’s historic Genesis auction, VitaDAO has funded 15+ longevity projects and gathered 9000+ community members
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December Longevity Research Newsletter
December 20, 2022
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
Awareness
Longevity
Awareness, Longevity
December Longevity Research Newsletter
As the end of the year is fast approaching we wanted to look back and appreciate all the effort and hard work of the researchers in the VitaDAO community - from students, postdocs and fellows to principal investigators
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Synthetic Vitality
November 29, 2022
Tim Peterson
Awareness
Longevity
Awareness, Longevity
Synthetic Vitality
Therapies that act synergistically are needed to significantly promote longevity
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November Longevity Research Newsletter
November 15, 2022
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
Awareness
Longevity
Awareness, Longevity
November Longevity Research Newsletter
A multitude of discoveries and inventions throughout history have been made by people who were initially trained in one domain, but were able to make a significant contribution to a different field due to their ability to look at a problem with a uni
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VitaDAO Letter: New collab with Research Hub, Symposium Recap & more
November 14, 2022
Sarah Friday
Awareness
Longevity
Awareness, Longevity
VitaDAO Letter: New collab with Research Hub, Symposium Recap & more
Inside: A Recap of VitaDAO’s 2nd “Crypto meets Longevity Symposium” VitaDAO Fellowship Update New VitaSpotlight Series: Rapamycin as a Promising Aging Intervention How to contribute to VitaDAO and ResearchHub’s Community Driven Paper Meet DAO Membe
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Rapamycin is the most promising aging intervention we currently have
October 25, 2022
Adrian Molière & Tomás Schmauck-Medina
Longevity
Science
Awareness
Longevity, Science, Awareness
Rapamycin is the most promising aging intervention we currently have
It was in 1975 when scientists from Ayerst (now Pfizer) discovered a novel compound called rapamycin (also known as Sirolimus) in bacteria on Rapa Nui(Easter Island) in Chile. In 1999 rapamycin obtained FDA approval for the prevention of acute reject
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October Longevity Research Newsletter
October 13, 2022
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
Awareness
Longevity
Awareness, Longevity
October Longevity Research Newsletter
Some species in the animal kingdom live extraordinarily long lives. They seem to be somehow protected from all the damage that we would expect to accumulate in aged tissues. Many are very large, like bowhead whales, and there is an established correl
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VitaDAO Letter: VitaDAO's first cell therapy funding: ApoptoSENS!
October 11, 2022
Sarah Friday
Awareness
Awareness
VitaDAO Letter: VitaDAO's first cell therapy funding: ApoptoSENS!
Happy DeSci Fall! Inside this month’s newsletter: VitaDAO’s 5th IP-NFT Funding Ceremony A New Publication on Decentralized Technology Transfer The Longevity Decentralized Review Explainer Meet DAO Member: Estèfano Pinilla
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Decentralized Technology Transfer: A Modern Framework to Empower Scientific Innovation
September 20, 2022
Zack West
Longevity
Science
Longevity, Science
Decentralized Technology Transfer: A Modern Framework to Empower Scientific Innovation
The transfer of technology (TT) is essential in turning intellectual property (IP) generated from innovative research into real-world applications that benefit the general public.
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Longevity Research Newsletter September 2022
September 9, 2022
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
Awareness
Longevity
Awareness, Longevity
Longevity Research Newsletter September 2022
Welcome back to our monthly newsletter! This month we are excited to bring you an interview with Dr. Marco Demaria who has made some significant contributions to our understanding of cellular senescence. 
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VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 9 September 2022
September 7, 2022
Sarah Friday
Awareness
Awarenes
VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 9 September 2022
Dear Vitalians, We are glad you are here! Inside this month’s newsletter: Pfizer, L1 Digital and Shine Capital Contribution Proposals Passed VitaDAO Proposals Meet DAO Member: Hamza Qureshi Upcoming Events, including a 2nd VitaDAO Crypto meets Long
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Set up MetaMask and receive your first VITA tokens
August 25, 2022
Maria Marinova
Awareness
Tokenomics
Awareness, Tokenomics
Set up MetaMask and receive your first VITA tokens
Set up MetaMask and receive your first VITA tokens
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Longevity Research Newsletter August 2022
August 11, 2022
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
Longevity
Awareness
Longevity, Awareness
Longevity Research Newsletter August 2022
We can all agree that the age-associated decline in physiological functionality and increased risk of developing diseases is terrible, but what can we do to treat, slow down or even prevent it?
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VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 8 August 2022
August 8, 2022
Sarah Friday
Awareness
Awareness
VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 8 August 2022
Dear Vitalians, happy DeSci-Summer! Inside this month’s newsletter: Longevity Prize in collaboration with Foresight and Methuselah Foundation Multichain Voting VitaDAO’s Fourth IP-NFT Ceremony Upcoming Events
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Announcing "The Longevity Prize"
July 12, 2022
Longevity
Longevity
Announcing "The Longevity Prize"
We are announcing The Longevity Prize in collaboration with Foresight.‍ A series of prizes to honor and accelerate progress in longevity and rejuvenation. ‍The longevity prize encourages novel approaches for turning back our aging clocks.
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Longevity Research Newsletter July 2022
July 8, 2022
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
Longevity
Newsletters
Longevity, Newsletters
Longevity Research Newsletter July 2022
Why do we age? Is aging a result of a genetic program encoded within each of our cells, or is it simply a consequence of damage accumulation throughout life?
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VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 7 July 2022
July 7, 2022
Sarah Friday
Awareness
Newsletters
Awareness, Newsletters
VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 7 July 2022
June was a month of celebration for VitaDAO! This June, VitaDAO celebrated its first birthday, held a ceremony for the transfer of VitaDAO's third IP-NFT, and completed another Gitcoin Grant Round.
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Longevity Research Newsletter June 2022
June 13, 2022
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
Longevity
Awareness
Newsletters
Science
Longevity,Awareness, Newsletters, Science
Longevity Research Newsletter June 2022
Welcome back to VitaDAO’s monthly longevity research newsletter — we hope you enjoyed our maiden issue!
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VitaDAOへようこそ
June 6, 2022
Hiroaki Hamada & Satoshi Hirano
Awareness
Awareness
VitaDAOへようこそ
老化克服や寿命延長を目的とした医薬品開発を自律分散型組織(decentralized autonomous organization, DAO)によって主導するVitaDAOについて日本の読者の方々にご紹介します。Wikipediaによれば、DAO とは、「中央集権的なリーダーシップが介在しないメンバー保有のコミュニティであり、DAOの金融取引記録やプログラムルールがブロックチェーンによって管理されている」と定義されています。
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VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 6 June 2022
June 6, 2022
Sarah Friday
Awareness
Newsletters
Awareness, Newletters
VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 6 June 2022
They say April showers bring May flowers. Instead of flowers, we hope we rose to the occasion with June’s newsletter to show how VitaDAO flourished this May.
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Longevity Research Newsletter May 2022
May 17, 2022
Maria Marinova & Rhys Anderson
Longevity
Awareness
Newsletters
Science
Longevity, Awareness, Newsletters, Science
Longevity Research Newsletter May 2022
Welcome Vitalians to the inaugural issue of VitaDAO’s Monthly Longevity Research Newsletter!
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VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 5 May 2022
May 1, 2022
Sarah Friday & Hossam Zaki
Awareness
Newsletters
Awareness, Newsletters
VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 5 May 2022
Hello Vitalians! April Fools might have started the month, but we promise this Newsletter is no joke! Many people in VitaDAO were able to attend ETHAmsterdam for one of the first ever DeSci days, featuring talks about all things DeSci
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How Crypto Can Help Science & Medicine
April 23, 2022
Tim Peterson
Science
Awareness
Science, Awareness
How Crypto Can Help Science & Medicine
By focusing anywhere but the US, DeSci can solve the hardest problems with science & medicine.
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VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 4 April 2022
April 7, 2022
Sarah Friday & Hossam Zaki
Awareness
Newsletters
Awareness, Newsletters
VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 4 April 2022
Hello Vitalians! Another month, another newsletter- and we couldn’t be more excited about it. Many of the core contributors to the DAO were able to meet up in sunny ☀️ Lisbon this month to organize, bond, and brainstorm in person.
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VitaDAO x PrimeDAO partnership
March 25, 2022
Tokenomics
Governance
Tokenomics, Governance
VitaDAO x PrimeDAO partnership
PrimeDAO is building tools that turn DeFi into a cooperative ecosystem.
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Epigenetic Clocks: A Simple Lab Test Measuring Biological Age
March 22, 2022
Lindsay Ciocco
Longevity
Science
Longevity, Science
Epigenetic Clocks: A Simple Lab Test Measuring Biological Age
Humans can instinctively recognize if someone appears older or younger than their age; so then, it should be apparent that many species, including humans, develop age-related changes at different rates.
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VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 3 March 2022
March 3, 2022
Sarah Friday & Hossam Zaki
Awareness
Newsletters
Awareness, Newsletters
VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 3 March 2022
We know we say it every month, but the VitaDAO community has been busy. We’ve been told to shorten these newsletters, but in all honesty, all that happened in VitaDAO this month makes that difficult!
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$VITA goes Gnosis Chain
February 12, 2022
Tyler Green
Tokenomics
Governance
Tokenomics, Governance
$VITA goes Gnosis Chain
Save gas fees by using Gnosis Chain (formerly xDai Chain) — DISCLAIMER: This guide is intended only for people who want to get VITA for use in VitaDAO. Part 1: Get started...
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The Science Behind NAD-Boosting & Anti-Aging
February 11, 2022
Maria Marinova
Science
Awareness
Science, Awareness
The Science Behind NAD-Boosting & Anti-Aging
If you have been following the longevity field for even just a little a while, you have probably heard of NAD+… a lot. So what is NAD+, and why are people excited about it?
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FRENS: A Generalizable Legal Framework for Fractionalized IP-NFTs
February 4, 2022
Chris Byrnes, Savva Kerdemelidis & Jesse Hudson
Awareness
Awareness
FRENS: A Generalizable Legal Framework for Fractionalized IP-NFTs
The current drug development system reflects an incentive structure that is anti-competitive and neglects the potential to repurpose existing therapies.
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VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 2 Feb 2022
February 1, 2022
Sarah Friday & Hossam Zaki
Awareness
Newsletters
Awareness,Newsletters
VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 2 Feb 2022
In this January edition of the VitaDAO Newsletter, you can learn about VitaDAO proposals that passed over the last month, get to know DAO rockstar Alex Dobrin, and more!
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VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 1 Jan 2021
December 31, 2021
Sarah Friday & Hossam Zaki
Awareness
Newsletters
Awareness,Newsletters
VitaDAO Newsletter Issue No 1 Jan 2021
The VitaDAO community has been hard at work this year pioneering the future of longevity research and IP-NFTs. These past few weeks have been particularly exciting! In this December edition of the VitaDAO Newsletter you will find updates on what has
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Public Health @ VitaDAO: Using Democratized Wealth To Democratize Health
December 21, 2021
Tim Peterson
Science
Science
Public Health @ VitaDAO: Using Democratized Wealth To Democratize Health
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A New Financial Model for Repurposing Off-Patent Longevity Medicines
December 16, 2021
Savva Kerdemelidis
Awareness
Awareness
A New Financial Model for Repurposing Off-Patent Longevity Medicines
Under the current system, patent protection is critical for developing a new therapy.
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On the Origins of Cellular Senescence
September 28, 2021
Jason Colasanti
Longevity
Longevity
On the Origins of Cellular Senescence
Originally described as gradual deterioration over time, senescence has taken on a much more intricate meaning in the past few decades.
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The First Longevity Drugs might be already among us — Drug Repurposing to Fight Aging
August 30, 2021
Estefano Pinilla
Longevity
Longevity
The First Longevity Drugs might be already among us — Drug Repurposing to Fight Aging
We are getting quite good at extending lifespan, or at least we are getting quite good at extending the lifespan of laboratory animals as complex as mice.
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How to acquire VITA on Uniswap
June 23, 2021
Awareness
Tokenomics
Awareness, Tokenomics
How to acquire VITA on Uniswap
This article will guide you through the process of using Uniswap to obtain VITA, VitaDAO’s token. For more information on VitaDAO itself, see this blog post as well as further links at the bottom of this article.
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Announcing the First VitaDAO Research Project: The Longevity Molecule
May 7, 2021
Awareness
Projects
Longevity
Science
Announcing the First VitaDAO Research Project: The Longevity Molecule
We’re excited to introduce the opening project to be funded by VitaDAO — the world’s first decentralized intellectual property collective.
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Announcing VitaDAO — The first publicly owned decentralized IP collective
April 3, 2021
Awareness
Awareness
Announcing VitaDAO — The first publicly owned decentralized IP collective
Hello world! Hello VitaDAO
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