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The Methuselah Foundation is a non-profit medical charity dedicated to extending healthy human They seek a cure for age-related disease, disability, suffering, and death.
According to the foundation's statement of purpose.
Aging is a thief that robs the world of its most precious resource, the wisdom and experience embodied in each human life, while placing increasing burdens on already strained healthcare systems. The application of technology to the diseases of the young has resulted in many more individuals surviving to enjoy life at ages rarely achieved in human history. It is now time to develop a new generation of medical therapies to cure the diseases emerging with longer life as a result of the biological aging process. The ultimate goal of the Foundation is nothing less than the defeat of age-related disease and the indefinite extension of the healthy human lifespan.