A New $15,000 Challenge Grant Announced for SENS Cancer Research Crowdfunding

Earlier today at the Rejuvenation Biotechnology 2016 conference, the SENS Research Foundation folk announced a $15,000 challenge grant for the present OncoSENS cancer research crowdfunding effort. All donations from here forward will be matched dollar for dollar from the grant, and the deadline for the fundraiser has been extended for another thirty days to give this a chance to run. The funds raised from the community through this initiative will be used to carry out the first high-throughput screening of drug candidates for cancers that use the alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT) mechanism to maintain their growth. Finding ways to block ALT is a necessary part of any future universal cancer therapy based on preventing telomere extension in cancer cells: all cancers must do this to grow, and without it they will wither away. The matching fund is provided by the generosity of an anonymous donor and Christophe and Dominique Cornuejols, who you will recall have helped to build the matching funds for the past few years of Fight Aging! SENS fundraisers. Their efforts are very much appreciated! You can find the announcement at 5:18 in the conference livestream from earlier today: Rejuvenation Biotechnology Conference, Wednesday Morning Lifestream, 5:18 Cancer will be controlled, the only question is how long it takes to achieve that goal. The next generation of immunotherapies and other very targeted approaches to kill cancer cells with few side-effects wi...
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