• News
    • Bitcoin
    • Altcoins
    • Blockchain
    • DeFi
    • Regulation
    • Scams
  • NFT
  • Metaverse
  • Analysis
  • Learn
  • Videos
  • Blogs
  • Market Cap
  • Shop
What's Hot

Is the Next Bitcoin Black Swan Lurking Around the Corner?

2025-07-05

What is Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA) in Crypto? A Beginner’s Guide

2025-07-04

What Is Liquid Staking? How It Works & Why It Matters in Crypto

2025-07-04

Subscribe to Updates

Get the latest creative news from FooBar about art, design and business.

Facebook Twitter Instagram
Crypto Investor News Network
  • News
    • Bitcoin
    • Altcoins
    • Blockchain
    • DeFi
    • Regulation
    • Scams
  • NFT

    All Eyes on Art: Upcoming Collections to Watch the Week of February 4

    2025-02-05

    Creator of rabbit AI assistant has hidden NFT past

    2024-05-02

    Ethereum tops daily NFT sales at US$7 mln, ends weakest month of 2024

    2024-05-02

    Top NFT Airdrops and Giveaways for May 2024

    2024-05-02

    Casio Launches NFT Collection Celebrating 50th Anniversary

    2024-05-01
  • Metaverse

    Shib: The Metaverse – Part of the Expanding Shiba Inu Ecosystem

    2025-01-03

    Experience to Earn: Everdome’s Metaverse Frontier

    2024-12-30

    Beyond Bots: Meta Motivo and the Dawn of Humanlike Digital Life

    2024-12-13

    Exploring NetVRk: What Is Behind This AI-Driven Virtual Universe?

    2024-10-28

    Council of Europe Highlights Metaverse’s Impact on Privacy and Democracy

    2024-09-05
  • Analysis

    Crypto Exchange Coinbase Lists New DeFi Altcoin Project Built on Base Blockchain

    2023-12-13

    Ethereum Price Bears Keep Pushing, Why Decline Isn’t Over Yet

    2023-12-13

    Trader Bullish on Cosmos (ATOM), Says One Dogecoin Rival Setting Up for Next Leg Up – Here’s His Outlook

    2023-12-13

    AVAX Price Pumps 50% and Dumps 15%, Why Uptrend Is Still Strong

    2023-12-13

    Top Trader Predicts Parabolic Rally for Solana Competitor – Here’s His Upside Target

    2023-12-13
  • Learn

    What is Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA) in Crypto? A Beginner’s Guide

    2025-07-04

    What Is Liquid Staking? How It Works & Why It Matters in Crypto

    2025-07-04

    What are Rollups in Crypto? ZK Rollups and Optimistic Rollups Explained

    2025-07-02

    A Full Comparison of Layer 2 Solutions

    2025-07-02

    What are Optimistic Rollups? How They Work and Why They Matter

    2025-07-01
  • Videos

    Is the Next Bitcoin Black Swan Lurking Around the Corner?

    2025-07-05

    How To Get Rekt Buying Bitcoin Treasury Companies

    2025-07-03

    No More Bitcoin Left For YOU!!!

    2025-07-03

    🔥 Bitcoin Bereikt Nieuwe Hoogtepunten en wordt geoptimaliseert met deze Layer 2 Presale!!!

    2025-07-02

    Bitcoin To $1M? Here’s WHY!

    2025-07-02
  • Blogs
  • Market Cap
  • Shop
Facebook Twitter Instagram TikTok
Crypto Investor News Network
Home»Blockchain»VitaDAO Launches Biotech Firm to Fight Aging With Naked Mole-Rats
Blockchain

VitaDAO Launches Biotech Firm to Fight Aging With Naked Mole-Rats

2023-10-09No Comments3 Mins Read
Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email
Share
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Email

A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is taking its interest in life extension to the next level, founding a biotech company to pursue cutting-edge science in treating cancer and other age-related diseases.

VitaDAO, a community-owned collective with a mission to fund and advance early-stage longevity research, announced today the launch of Matrix Biosciences, in partnership with world-renowned biologist Vera Gorbunova. A professor at the University of Rochester, Gorbunova is credited with identifying cancer-resistant traits in the naked mole-rat.

Todd White, a core member of VitaDAO, told Decrypt that the idea behind the new company is to “route research from within a DAO back into the real world,” instead of keeping it on-chain.

Unlike VitaDAO’s decentralized nature, White explained, Matrix Biosciences will be centralized and operate much like a traditional company. In fact, the majority shareholder will be VitaDAO, and the newly created biotech will be obliged to provide them with quarterly reports—similar to conventional investment structures.

“We want to show that blockchain can co-exist effectively with the biotech industry,” he said.

Acknowledging the strict legal environment of medicine and healthcare, White explained that both VitaDAO and the newly created Matrix Biosciences are “proactively” working with regulators. He saida fair bit of reputational risk is associated with the crypto industry, so they want to prove “we aren’t cowboys.”

The Matrix Biosciences mission is bleeding edge, added Eleanor Davies, also a core member of VitaDAO. She told Decrypt that the company will be researching the naked mole-rat, a long-lived rodent that is abundant in high molecular weight hyaluronic acid (HMW-HA). The compound is inherent to these species of rats is anti-cancerous, anti-pain, and pro-longevity.

See also  A16z-backed Iron Fish launches privacy-focused mainnet blockchain

Matrix Bioscience will look to harness its characteristics to develop applications for cancer treatment and other age-related diseases in humans, Davies said, a strategy that aligns with VitaDAO’s mission.

“Our funding mandate is to fund ‘moonshot bleeding-edge research’ that doesn’t usually qualify for [National Institutes of Health] or traditional venture capital,” she said. For her, Matrix Biosciences will be working to create “the next blockbuster therapeutic.”

Both White and Davies touted the work of Gorbunova, who will serve as Matrix Biosciences’ lead scientist, and her work over the years in the mechanisms of longevity, genome stability, and long-lived mammals. She is currently the co-director of the University of Rochester’s Aging Research Center and has won a plethora of awards for her research over the years.

VitaDAO—which counts Pfizer Ventures among its contributors—will initially fund Matrix Biosciences with $300,000. Later, the venture will be allocated additional capital through its IP-NFT fractionalization model.

Today’s launch is “a big signal to the biotech community that we are not fooling around,” White concluded.

Aging Biotech Fight Firm Launches MoleRats Naked VitaDAO
Share. Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email

Related Posts

US Treasury sanctions Philippines tech firm over aiding $200 million pig butchering spree

2025-05-30

How To Run Your Own Bitcoin Node (And Fight Bitcoin Spam)

2025-05-04

Why Circle’s IPO Could CRASH Before It Even Launches!

2025-04-18

Trump family’s memecoin launches spark frenzy of scam tokens

2025-01-21
Add A Comment

Leave A Reply Cancel Reply

Top Posts
Analysis

Challenger exchanges look to compete with Binance as OKX, Bitget claim market share

2023-07-18

As reserves continue to decline across all major centralized exchanges (CEXs), Binance, the top exchange…

Blockchain

Gnosis Rolls Out Dencun Upgrade Ahead of Ethereum, Promising Enhanced Data Efficiency & Cost Savings

2024-03-11

Today, Gnosis made headlines by successfully implementing the Dencun hard fork on its Gnosis Chain,…

Videos

Minibits BTC Wallet: Near Perfect Privacy and Low Fees – FULL TUTORIAL

2024-01-19

Discover the world of Minibits, a unique Bitcoin wallet that leverages the innovative Chaumian eCash…

Subscribe to Updates

Get the latest news and Update from CINN about Crypto, Metaverse and NFT.

Editors Picks

Is the Next Bitcoin Black Swan Lurking Around the Corner?

2025-07-05

What is Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA) in Crypto? A Beginner’s Guide

2025-07-04

What Is Liquid Staking? How It Works & Why It Matters in Crypto

2025-07-04

How To Get Rekt Buying Bitcoin Treasury Companies

2025-07-03
Crypto Investor News Network
Facebook Twitter Instagram TikTok
  • Contact
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • DMCA
  • Disclouser
© 2025 - All rights are reserved.

Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.

bitcoin
Bitcoin (BTC) $ 108,626.10
ethereum
Ethereum (ETH) $ 2,543.24
tether
Tether (USDT) $ 1.00
xrp
XRP (XRP) $ 2.26
bnb
BNB (BNB) $ 663.65
solana
Solana (SOL) $ 151.43
usd-coin
USDC (USDC) $ 1.00
tron
TRON (TRX) $ 0.285938
dogecoin
Dogecoin (DOGE) $ 0.169717
staked-ether
Lido Staked Ether (STETH) $ 2,542.93
bitcoin
Bitcoin (BTC) $ 108,626.10
ethereum
Ethereum (ETH) $ 2,543.24
tether
Tether (USDT) $ 1.00
xrp
XRP (XRP) $ 2.26
bnb
BNB (BNB) $ 663.65
solana
Solana (SOL) $ 151.43
usd-coin
USDC (USDC) $ 1.00
tron
TRON (TRX) $ 0.285938
dogecoin
Dogecoin (DOGE) $ 0.169717
staked-ether
Lido Staked Ether (STETH) $ 2,542.93