Ele­vian banks $5.5 mil­lion seed round to pur­sue 'y­oung blood' de­rived an­ti-ag­ing tech

A start­up in San Fran­cis­co called Ele­vian has round­ed up $5.5 mil­lion in seed cash to pur­sue its work on a re­gen­er­a­tive med­i­cine pro­gram.

The big idea here is that re­search at Stan­ford and Har­vard found that “young blood” has a re­gen­er­a­tive im­pact on or­gans. And they be­lieve as a con­se­quence that boost­ing GDF11 — growth dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion fac­tor 11 — could play an an­ti-ag­ing role in hu­mans.

The founders have li­censed the tech they’re work­ing on from Har­vard.

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