Great incentive, well done. 

Excellent move!

Well done

that's amazing!

Aging... That's really interesting...

Sounds awesome, Larry!

+Larry Page the difference between +Google and other companies is "You"
The Key to Google success is You
and One day Google will Change Complete World 
We Love Google

I am aging so this is very relevant to me-

and calico.com is owned by oracle

+Perry Metzger interesting I would say.. 

Great!

It affects us all.....a step in the right direction. Kudos on your move. 

Great! Wish everybody the luck they need.

Awesome....Google health

It does affect us all...in ways some of us can't understand or know yet. But we are counting on Google and other forward thinking companies to use technology to make this better for all of us, not just line shareholder pockets. So best of luck and keep up the good work!

Great project. Is this somehow related to +23andMe ?

I live in Africa and I find this a God send 

This is great news and shows a way on how google can leverage the x projects to expand beyond the core business.

I'm confused. Is this company going to be a subsidiary of Google? Or is Google just investing in it? If it's not a subsidiary, why would Google announce its creation, and if it is, why wouldn't Google be paying for it all rather than 3rd parties? Regardless, Art will be busy as CEO of a new company, chairman of 2 others, and director of a 4th.

There is SO much in healthcare and drug discovery research that can be "Google-ized". This is a great development from the leaders of companies that revolutionized and invented ( in the case of Genentech) tech and biotech. 

You're the man Larry!

Fresh herb in salad goes better then smoking it to slow down the aging process. Still works both ways but fresh is best;)

Success

Awesome!! This rightly demonstrates the courage and resolve of a true entrepreneur. Unafraid to experiment!!

All the Best, Larry!

Great 

Great!  +Larry Page have always said that technology and development can help a lot in improving our quality of life, and now with the new advances in stem cells regenerate allowing many parts of our body and cure many diseases, also research and decomposition of our DNA, etc ... Google sure will be made with amazing things!

Great news Larry Page

Great +Larry Page , look forward to use the products of Calico.

nice

🏥🏩🏨 ℹ🔎🔍💡🚼👍👍🆗

Sounds exciting!

Thanks. Hoping you will be able to dent a very important domain like you did in other less serious ones.

Google's strategy is getting broader but still focused on making money: More mentally healthy years, more years for you to click on Google ads. ;) 

Looking forward to seeing what comes out of this. Sounds like a great project. If there's one universal problem which affects us all, it's aging...

+Larry Page defying death??

+Larry Page this is brilliant. I am a great believer in telehealth and ehealth. I know many people I work with will be very excited by this. Well done! 

+Larry Page, take a look at what these guys are working on, they might make a good partner for the new company: http://advancedcell.com/documents/0000/0467/act-corporate-presentation---september-2013---rodman-conference---final-print-version.pdf

very interesting +Larry Page !

+Larry Page You should definitely meet with Dr. Robert Lanza/ +George Church  and their venture Ark ( TEDx talk: The use of cloning and stem cells to resurrect life: Robert Lanza at TEDxDeExtinction ). I have tried to share with Bill M +Google Ventures  many times about Lanza, Advanced Cell Technology and his magical brain and stem cells...!  $ACTC

Bravo!

so, how do I apply?

Will Ray Kurzweil have anything to do with Calico ? That sounds like it'd be right up his alley..

Great! Good luck +Larry Page 

I for one welcome my cyborg overlords selling immortality.

Un "piccolo" passo in avanti per tutta l'umanità! si è passati dalla filosofia del "non fare del male" a quella di "migliorare la qualità della vita" e non è cosa da poco!! continuate cosi..ottimo lavoro :)

Finally some real financial muscle realizing "They can't take it with them.".

So basically while Apple is spending all their free time suing everyone and everything under the sun, Google is trying to cure the disease of old age...

Gotta love Google :).

I was just thinking yesterday why doesn't Google do smth like this

good

+Chris Banks The CEO of this new company, Art Levinson,  is chairman of Apple. 

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I hope Google to have a considerate look toward #cryonics and related immortalist technologies. 

Google Immortality on the way? I see what you're doing there, bringing the singularity closer that way.

best wishes to  ARTHUR LEVINSON   .....
TOMORROW .. it's the challenge of demographics is going to be great ..
so this Health Co is going to be a trendsetter ...best wishes from
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Good evening

That's why Google is GOOGLE! different from all others.

I hope you can make use of the community here to help. 

So Google's basically taking on death - I hope it's easier to beat than the NSA ;)

Glad to see the synergy with Apple people in this endeavor.

There is tremendous resistance to the  coming paradigm shift in medical treatments, both from people who may be overly concerned due to a lack of accurate information, and from businesses with vested interests in maintaining the status quo. This could provide much-needed financing for ground-breaking regenerative medicine companies, such as Advanced Cell Technologies, Inc., a company that is currently conducting multiple trials for Stargardt's and Dry-AMD, both serious eye diseases that together affect tens of millions of people worldwide.

Google should be applauded for having the courage to look far beyond their normal business model. Maybe someday soon our government will show the same level of courage, and finally make decisions on issues that have been inexcusably languishing in limbo for years.

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"...the Sybil at Cumae, hanging in a cage...and when the boys asked 'what do you truly desire' Sybil answered 'I want to die".

Too often the diseases of ageing put us in the cage with the Sybil, thank you so much for applying your many talents to free us from the cage at Cumae.

Interview +Dane Findley for that enterprise. Never let a resident expert and asset be overlooked.

I read it in a +Larry Page voice. 

This is what makes you and Google different from the other tech companies.  I'm happy to support your product line.  Keep thinking out of the box!  Keep shooting for the stars!

Very good Larry.  I am glad that +Google is getting into healthcare field.   A question, is Calico a biotech or bioinformatics company?  Will there be labs?   

I am very happy to see the constant outreach and awareness programs that Google has created and continues to create as a company. 

Great to hear that the Goog is back in healthcare.

+Keith Win Why not BOTH!!?

Welcome to the field of healthy aging (and everything associated with it). Glad to have you here :-)

Good. I'm getting old. Make it stahp!

Like that idea. Super. 

{a totally meaningless, vapid, fawning comment goes here}

How do I apply?

Dude. 30 min of activity a day and so many health probs associated with aging could be solved. Doesn't take a tech company to help people to achieve that. Unless your tech will actually let people work less for more money so they feel they have the time to exercise.

. . . technologies for the aging is very different that extending life expectancy - but will be exciting to watch and be a part of!

I for one can not wait to see what sort of innovations come out of this new company! :)

We keep coming up technology to free up our time and yet for every device that does so we have to work longer and harder to pay for it. 

Always been a fan of Google's brazen thinking. I'm currently involved in creating innovative healthcare IT solutions using "big data". Would love to see what Calico is all about, and be a part of the team!

Certified: Goosebumps Inducing. All the best +larry page

From changing the lives of people to really affecting them. Thanks for being bold! 

People go through samsara and old age and illness are demons; solving these problems is beyond ordinary Fa.  Practice Falun Gong, Larry.  I graduated from U.Mich in 2004 in Political Science.

Hope you find the cure to cancer!

Existing pharma companies have created it a billion dollar industry with barely any progress made!

Good luck!

Awesome!

We are developing a treatment for the #3 cause of death in the US.  It will, at least, reduce the struggle to breath, and may flatten the trajectory of the disease.  It will also make a big dent in the economic impact of the disease.  If this is in the same universe as your target profile, please let us tell you more.  bob@lbrresearch.org

Well done!

This is what I call 10x thinking. Well done, Google.

+Amanda June Hagarty Add the food next to it. And that's still not enough to live longer, at least not as much as LP hopes to out-live us. :)

Way to use your resources for more good of mankind, I applaud you google!

Nice job Larry.  This is the tech leadership we need in the industry.. congrats

Yes! Now, when do you start hiring?

Will you do something related to kids, like Autism?


Google!

Larry, that sounds awesome!  I only hope you (Goog) will spend whatever it takes to do the proper research and development, etc. and not cut corners at all.  You guys can be a huge leader in this field, inspiring others to join in.  If Calico has a website, make sure that people can donate to it.  I could only give a small amount, but maybe it would help.  Thanks.

It's HAPPENING!!!

good times are coming! 

And the Howard Families are born.

Thanks - really timely indeed. cc +HTxA - High Tech x Agency  #funcnanomat2013  

mark

As MD and "nerd" I'm excited about your move!

The best thing you can do for this program is learn from the teachings of Ron Rosedale. Nobody gets the puzzle of aging and disease like he does. 

Great stuff Larry!  So excited to see what Google comes up with next to save the world.  More loons!

I hope that your new venture looks to the crisis of affordable health care for common conditions. For millions in the USA life saving medications are only available by paying the trolls to prescribe and dispense those life saving meds. The pernicious toll paid to the doctors, pharmacies, and insurers are for most conditions far more than the cost of the meds. 

Under the guise that lavishly paid watchful doctors and pharmacists will spot possible "side effects" they restrict access to the meds which effectively treat primary and implicit effects of illnesses easily treated. This sinister protectionist guild behaviour results in millions suffering and dying from poor treatment of primary disease.

I am all for this venture. Just hope it doesn't only help the rich while not helping the poor. Think the movie Elysium with Jodi Foster and Matt Damon. 

Personally it just looks like more advertising to me. Google does this once or twice a year. They throw some money at some blue sky project that makes us all say "ooooohhhhh"....they sell advertising. All of those PHD's are just employed to sell your eyeballs to advertisers.

+Larry Page Not strange at all. If we all live longer we spend more time online! It's a win-win!

+Larry Page this is the guy you should talk to - +Aubrey de Grey. Good luck!

Awesome ... Go #Google

Nice work. I worked in the health industry forever. What it comes down to is environment and how each of us perceive ourselves in our own environment- Stress, positve environments help. So many people are just eating everything all together and their systems are totally over loaded. Even the best of blenders on high speed could not break down the foods. Humans are cattle eating whatever is put infront of them. We were never meant to eat cheese meat breads fruits all at once in one sitting. Soil being depleted there should be world standards from anyone growing foods to say what minerals are in that food. Some people are buying Brazil nuts from California, but how do you know that the selenium is abundant in that soil. The healthiest fast food or Chains of food claim to have healthy foods, but honestly it can only reach a certain degree. It's all about replenishing our own natural lifeforce. If your take care of yourself and eat alot of colors and food combine and just enjoy your meal un distracted im a believer that is one degree to being healthier and going in the direction of immortality.
I wish I was apart of this cool initiative I have so many ideas....

LARRY,                                                                                                                                I WOULD LIKE TO WORK WITH YOUR TEAM? PLEASE MAKE IT POSSIBLE FROM YOUR SIDE. I AM FROM DHAKA BANGLADESH. I HOPE LARRY WILL MAKE IT POSSIBLE.

For slavic languages 'calico' sounds like 'cripple' :D
It makes absolutely opposite meaning for the company. 

Kudos to Google! I just really hope that this doesn't at some point in the future become a transhumanism thing.

Sir +Larry Page , The latest#iOS7 update gives users time to think about buying an Android phone.

Kudos to Google!

I'm excited to see where this'll take us!

Blown away by the innovation at Google.

I pretty much approve of anything Google does and I approve of this too.... thumbs up!

Yes, we need more companies like Google.

Great going! congratulations. Looking forward to innovations in health and well-being!

YES!

Is not an investor but would bet on the capacity of Google to understand the complexity of biohacking at the molecular level. I wonder though if ads will be proportionate to the number of "years deleted"...

+Larry Page does this mean Google under the name Calico will be moving into the pharmaceutical and medical device industry making a few acquisitions and then developing their own? 

I am just happy it is Google doing it!

Interesting move of Google, but not so far fetched as one might think. In the age of genomics, might be Google the company who has the computing power to exiting DNA  and related biomedical data analysis. As we soon will move towards the semantic web, I am sure Google will be a major contributor in understanding huge biomedical data pools, which will contribute to better understanding and novel solution in respect of human health.

Not surprised that the good folks at GOOGLE are thinking outside the box.

This is what makes Google such a great company. Some other big, inward-looking companies should take note... 

many companies focus on improving "product"..we need more projects like these that focusses on improving "people"..good thinking Google.

Great initiative.

COOL :)

Thank you so much!  I've been involved in supporting aging research for 10 years now, and this announcement is fantastic news! My friends who are also involved in researching aging at SENS are also probably very excited about this.  Aging is what drives almost all common disease that people get as they grow older; you affect aging and you slow or prevent all of them in one go; either by slowing down the rate of aging or reversing the molecular damage that has been accumulating over time. It's much more effective from many points of view to target aging instead of each disease individually. This is been known now for a long time with research into aging in animals. 

Truly, this is one of the most important goals; to end the endless suffering that aging causes. The problem won't go away, it will keep getting worse and put a huge strain on the economy if nothing is done soon.

We all have at least one right:  The right to live.


Matt

perfect.  how about a company that focuses on software developers health? i think right now we are at middle agents for this we are sitting the whole day programming this is very bad for our health... is there an option to allow for purchasing of more storage in google sites? right now it blocks me, i want to purchase can you help me? (purely more storage in google sites...) thanks, I want to use it as a wiki.

Fantastic Larry, keep inspiring!!!

Longer life versus quality of life--hopefully there's a component of long term quality care in this endeavor.

Congrats for the 10x thinking.

Incredible!  We are all forced to die a slow painful death due to aging as our bodies deteriorate over the course of 50 or more years.  It is time that we make infirmity a choice.

Calico, SENS foundation, 2045 initiative, Terasem, and many more organizations, are joining the fight against involuntary suffering and death!

This is fantastic! [Am focused on developing Google #Glass Health Wellness Fitness Medical Apps & Life Style 2.0 ecosystem]

Keep rolling!!

Technology and health, sign me up!

Saw this coming as soon as Ray Kurzweil got hired :)

Thanks so much, Larry! - Plz "don't be evil" ;) and join forces, share knowledge, do synergy with Aubrey De Grey, Ray Kurzweil, and all the people that are already fighting aging!!!!

How can we help?

The key to good health and wellbeing is diet. We need to ban things like Grains, dairy and suger gluten, legumes. Get rid of that and watch your health increase daily. They have done research on island community's which are basically disease and cancer free. Then years later after the introduction of grains dairy sugar and legumes they start getting cases of cancer and other disease. 

So exciting! 

Non-invasive Scoliosis treatment, please!

una speranza in più!!!interessante

This just in, Google plans to make everyone immortal by the founding of a new company. (One can dream, right?)

My aunt had a calico when I was a kid. Um ya

+Ian Stallings chair of their board doesn't mean he is President or CEO. Board members of major companies are often comprised of major players from other big name companies. Has nothing to do with his position as CEO with Calico.

Congratulations on the vision of Google and Calico for tackling one of the most pressing issues facing all of us as individuals, our families, our colleagues, our businesses, our governments, our nations...how to get more quality time out of our existence here on earth.  Which begs another question: What's an extra year of high quality life worth? How about two, three, four or five? Priceless in my book...how about yours?

Congratulations Larry ! May #Ingress  be one of your partners ! 
It's time to move !

It is a good idea but I/we would like to know more. Keep use up to date. 

At first you made every information to all people accessable (Google search,books), then you showed us the whole world (maps, Earth, streetview) then you will change the way we travel (selfdriving car) and bring Internet to the whole world (loon) and now you will make our lives longer. Mr. Page, you and Mr. Brin are really heroes in my oppinion. You change the world to a better place. I really hope one day i could help you bring our species forward to the next level. One day we can stop the wars, hunger, poverty and illness. Thank you very much for all your work. Other billionaires just want more power. You use your power to create. That is the right way.

Is there any specific Calico interest in RESILIENCE??

Is there a website for the company? did I miss it?

Bicentennial Man anyone saw the movie again the other night it got me thinking along similar lines. Robotics would be a great mid step along the way! 

I should work for you! :-) I am in pharma industry and its R&D business since years, I have knowledge in multiple specialties, I am quite a geek plus I am Italian ;-) contact me!

Bug thumbs up!

This is a awesome initiative. Hope we can provide the care needed at reasonable cost and is affordable for everyone.

My wife is a surgeon in private practice and would appreciate the opportunity to change careers especially in such a forward thinking environment such as Calico. How would she go about applying with Calico to have an opportunity to work with such an endevour?

Thanks Mr. Page, awesome job. 

This could be very interesting, especially from an old fart who is also a Google fan boy.  Wow, that doesn't sound right. I do know quite a bit about aging and associated (oh my poor frickin back) diseases.

This is exciting

Hopefully an exciting new chapter in aging research!

I am applying. I have a readily usable method based on current technologies, all I need is the means to do it. It involves using attenuated viruses we already have extensive experience with, namely HIV among others, to begin modulating the CCR5 gene in vivo, which will give us the ability to modulate the other viruses we will be introducing.

The first patients would need to be people that already posses at least one copy of the CCR5 Delta 32 gene to minimize our effort. The CCR5 Gene will be our key to controlling the efficacy of the other viruses we will begin introducing (preferably viruses the patient is already carrying; you got herpes, fine. We pull it out, modify it, put it back in and dial down your immune response using our newly found friend the HIV, which we can also modulate as necessary, and allow your Herpes partner to carry in the modified genes. This is obviously over simplified, but it is going to work. China has probably beat us to the punch. The idea place to do this research is Antarctica. No restrictions there yet.

This sounds very intriguing. I would love to apply my Oncology/Immunology drug development and personalized medicine background in the context of this group. So you have need of those skill sets?

Genentech is the former name of Monsanto.

I am a graduate of medical genetics :D finally i can work in my favorite field in my favorite company. Time to show finger at my IT friends who brag. Can we expect job updates on Google jobs page or would this appear separately or would it be unadvertised.

Seems like a strange move, but good luck.

Very exciting news! I am a registered nurse and have been looking for a career where I can take advantage of my passion for technology and healthcare and this new company sounds like it might be it? Is there any news about possible internships, job opportunities, or consultation needs? I would love to share what I've learned about the challenges of technology in patient care.  

buena esa...

A lot of good points raised by the comments here.  Do you have any responses, Mr. Page?

Bless you Larry. Only caring and compassionate persons like you can associate in such an altruistic project . Wish it all success.

I love how Google doesn't let themselves be limited by how other people view their company

+Larry Page I have always wanted to work for a google company but with a Biology degree that never became an opportunity, How do I apply to research at Calico?

Does "health and well-being" include Mental Health?

Amazing 

Sir, Congratulations !!! on this new venture from Google. Please have the new Company Calico also do research on finding better/effective cancer drugs. The current cancer drugs kill the patients immune system and there by the patient. We need revolutionizing drugs in the field of cancer. The pharma companies and oncologists are making huge profits and do not seem to be wanting to bring in better drugs.

Thank you, Larry. It's such a great move.

I must be missing something. What will Calico do? 

Dear Mr. Page, I think Google has already improved the quality of life and while I applaud this new initiative I hope you are also working on using current technology to improve healthcare dramatically in the next few years. If you haven't already, I strongly suggest you contact Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong who has been working in this arena for the past seven years and would be of immense help to your endeavor. Also, I strongly suggest you contact Paul Marran, an American living in London, who has been working on improving healthcare and who has had tremendous results. He is with "The Learning Clinic" and his company has won numerous awards including "Best Use of IT & Technology - HSJ/NT Patient Safety Awards 2010". He can be reached at: The Learning Clinic, 7 Lyric Square, London W6 0ED Tel: +44 (0)20 8746 4545 or Paul@marran.net. I would like to send you an article, though dated, I hope you would find of interest and use but don't see how I can on this blog. It is titled: "The Future of Healthcare" and was printed in "Connected World" in their July/Aug 2011 issue. I wish you the best of luck in this new and worthy endeavor. 

It's going to be a long time before we have the science to design a new human-like species that doesn't age at all. But there's a lot of existing science that could improve quality of life for the elderly - if the associated engineering (and socio-political) issues were resolved by the right focused effort. Good luck!

Hi Larry, I totally love this idea. I have been working away, alone, for some years on projects that assist our ageing bodies and redesigning for more ergonomics in existing product segments. I would love to work for your new start-up. How do I apply? Regards, JD Ryan (Ms) Melbourne , Australia

wow sir wat a grt idea!!!!!!
jst awesome

+Gerd Moe-Behrens Good points, especially about the semantic web. More studies are good, but we have not yet full understood the implications of what we already know (especially the relation of nutrition and health).The Knight News  Challenge on Health Data is ongoing, looking for good ideas about dealing with health care data. Here is my entry, which is about applying techniques developed by the intelligence community to connect the dots about human health:
https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/healthdata/feedback/health-sensemaking-software-tools

There's probably a great opportunity here for Google to be part of helping connect the dots about wellness. Search results are great, but then the next question is, how do make sense of what you find? Better free and open source software tools could help with that, in health as well as other areas. We probably need that a lot more than new studies.

Brilliant direction to choose, Google.  Curious to find out more.  Personally hoping it includes collation and analysis of the abundance of existing medical and lifestyle records of everyone possible (alive and dead) and their blood relationships to find trends, which could then be used to create hypotheses for ongoing projects.  Google would be perfectly placed for this.  Not only does it have the tools, reach and skill set, but people possibly trust the organisation enough to donate their data.  

Regardless, awesome purpose for an organisation.  Well done on prioritising this project.  Can't wait to hear more.

Can't wait to see Art back in action.

Ok very good 

+Rajesh Karia Human Life is immortal now .Human Life Immortal Software is in process of launching .Visit http://www.slideshare.net/neuroheart/human-life-immortal-pps-auto-run 

Love it!  Google is going to continue to improve the world

Live long and prosper +Larry Page \\// =)

what and the hell did u do. most of us have to look and type. now while i type u move the cursor. lol. stupid. fire somebody.

I read in Time your quote, 

“Are people really focused on the right things? One of the things I thought was amazing is that if you solve cancer, you’d add about three years to people’s average life expectancy,” Page said. “We think of solving cancer as this huge thing that’ll totally change the world. But when you really take a step back and look at it, yeah, there are many, many tragic cases of cancer, and it’s very, very sad, but in the aggregate, it’s not as big an advance as you might think.”

Read more: http://business.time.com/2013/09/18/google-extend-human-life/#ixzz2fJZH8ldf

I believe you're not seeing the whole picture here.  The ability to regenerate tissue is intrinsically a double-edged sword: that very regeneration mechanism can go awry and lead to cancer.  So if we truly "solved" cancer, it may be that as a result we could somehow take the brakes off regeneration, and that is what would have the real effect on quality lifespan.

See here: https://plus.google.com/104641711123551165692/posts/N7Acvcdjxme

Wonderful vision - now go execute!! :) and thanks!

My first thought: Uploaded consciousness

My second thought: That's going to take a lot more than 15GB.

Sages in Himalayas live longer and healthier with herbs. an initiative to unravel the secrets of the sages will help mankind. I can share my small knowledge in getting access to them

Breakthrough technology and knowledge in the field of healthcare would be one great contribution of your initiative. But do we really need to go after aging? Why not join hands with Bill Gates and other philanthropists to first tackle infectious diseases through vaccines and work towards food security. More people and government would benefit with this. 
My 2 cents. 

That's the most important and worst problem in the world, because age-related diseases and disabilities (heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer's, cancer...) are the number 1 cause of suffering and death in the world. I'm relieved that finally, a big player is going to tackle this horrible problem. It would be great to see this new company collaborating with state-of-the-art aging research institutes like the SENS research foundation.
Great work! I'm proud of you, Larry and Google!

I work in a retirement community and have a lot insights and ideas about what is working and what needs to change to help residents as they are dealt new challenges. It really takes empathetic giving people to want to be involved at this level. Good one.

Great idea. To my opinion, Ambient Assisted Living (and healthcare as well) bear an extremely high potential and may help us solve the problems of an ageing society. In Germany, research and qualification in AAL is government funded by BMBF, Ministry for Education and Research. (I just finished one of their vocational trainings) 

There are a lot of diseases related to the aging, and others with chronical diseases. To improve the quality of life of this patients the future is the telehealth and ehealth. We have some proofs of concept where I live. I hope this new company work in that direction and contribute improving the quality of life of chronical diseases patients.

Wonderful initiative! Looking forward to learn more about it ...

The saying that "All people are equal before death and disease" should be the thing of past .
 People work so hard in life and when they are about to reap the benefits they either are tortured to death by some deadly disease or loose the youth in their body. 
Our priorities have been physical luxury rather than Life & Health.
This is really an exiting project and a business. 

https://plus.google.com/101182743259035030658/posts/awErf75TWpk I'm really happy when the resources spent to improving human health are growing. Even by little. Health is probably the most important factor in mans hapiness. And how an important goal is to give hapiness to people..
In the link you can find another a bit extreme use of resources towards the same goal..

We will keep an eye on that for sure... good luck!

people should better think more than live longer. it's ridiculous!! You guys are no humans anymore. Idiots!

Cutting Edge. 1007213

If there are opportunities for internships with Calico please let me know. I have been interested in radical life extension since about 2002 and I run a wiki called Rejuvepedia.

Good initiative by you! I think quality of life has to improve rather than just the life expectancy. How does it matter if millions starve daily all through their 70-80 years? An energetic, healthy life of 60 years is better than a miserable 80 years.

I think it would be cool when Google will roll panda update to decide who is woth living more and who's not.
New professions are on the horizon, such as LEO: Life Extension Optimization...

Awesome... Google's great contribution to technology is evident and now it's extending it to humanity. That's how conglomerates should work. And Google is setting an example. 

Let us know how WEGO Health - a network of 65,000+ online consumer health opinion leaders, can help. Instead of a "patient advisory board" of a few dozen people, why not 10s of thousands of on-demand conversations with the most active health leaders online?

Sounds so exciting  !!!!  I am sure revolutionary technologies will come up, since Google is involved 

Nice idea. But note the poor would rather want death than life. Think
about this too!

Great to hear that. Google is a great company and such initiatives make it one of the greatest.

very exciting..

Well now I found my new dream job. I love Google and I love working in end of life. Never did I think I could combine the two passions. This is incredible news!

What could be better than this? Solving illness and death.
I love Google and what it does.
But, death is a important step in nature cycle and is something we should not cross as it controls the populations of species.
In addition, we need illness. I am not kidding, the principle of living is survival of fits. Surviving from bacterials and viruses makes our immune system stronger and fitter.

Also, such technology is hard to apply to all people due to distrubution problem of money in societies. The overpopulation will tighten our food and water supply. That is what should solve before extending our lifespan readily.

hi

+Larry Page Please keep us updated no matter how small on what #calico  is doing. I personally am dealing with an anti aging business myself and will love to know what a company researching in anti aging with Google funding is capable of coming up with. I'm excited of the possibilities. =)

A welcome, long term move for longer, happier lives...

Like the Internet (and Google) are in the process of positively changing the life of the global Poor, Calico should also improve the quality of these lives...

You sir, are a legend!

After all DNA is a genetic code ! working in a very similar with programming code.

I believe directly or indirectly it may part of broader strategy to build on silicon side AI with help of Ray" Kurzweil and on biological side extension of life with this new venture. Eventually I foresee a unity point sometime in future there will be synergy fusing these two different discipline into one. This may result in extension of life with assistance from Google AI with direct mind interface. This will lead a Giant leap from smartphone to SmartMan.#calico #AI  

I nearly cried when I read the news! This is the kind of initiative that makes me feel hopeful for the future. I follow the aging research and its modest little incremental steps for so long that I was afraid nothing so bold would happen in my lifetime. 

Future generations will look back and see how remarkably important Google was to humanity. Thank you Larry.

Now go hire Aubrey de Grey and bring on the new times!

+Larry Page I do hope Calico focus heavily on educating the masses (with your monster ad reach) about diet & exercise being the single most important thing to improve ones health. Thanks!

Cierto, muy interesante y fascinante...me apunto a este reto con expectativas y colmada de interés

need to look after the division  of the cell and telomere contraction by breaking off  .....try telomerese  ...... :)

I like the idea.  Having been in the field for years I can say big obstacles to better health are income disparity and gender inequality.  People with not a lot of resources tend to have less education, worse job prospects, worse diets, less social support, and worse physical and mental health.  And focusing on the education of women has already been shown to improve health on a broad scale:

From:
http://www.trust.org/item/20130726112126-lf5vk/

"Social and economic development [of] women and girls is the most inexpensive and effective tool in the fight against hunger and malnutrition, says a new study on gender and food security."

Women’s education alone resulted in a 43% reduction in hunger from 1970 to 1995, while women living longer led to an additional 12 percent decline in hunger levels, according to the report.

Gender equality is “the single most important determinant of food security”, wrote Olivier De Schutter, the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food and author of the report, Gender Equality and Food Security: Women’s Empowerment as a Tool against Hunger, released this week."

Education, access to clean water and toilets, improved nutrition and sanitation - these will go far in improving the health of people everywhere.

Google fighting aging! Pure genius! If the company were in Europe, I'd apply immediately...

I'm a Certified Health Coach living in NYC I'd love to work for your company!  Let me know if you have any openings in the nyc area!  

sounds good.. have  they never read any science fiction though? about half of all SF is stories about the problems in a world where everyone just hangs around forever... it;s boring,,.. not everyone is cut out for it.. kind of unfair to the new  arrivals... just saying.. devil's advocate.. wle..

Thx, you are great, a real smart person!

Now the real question is, will this actually improve millions of lives, or just a handful of people who can afford the improvements?

Very proud of you , your company , the way you feel the world with it's necessities, finding always ways to improve the quality of life of the people. Clearly focused in what is important and necessary !!

methylene blue, colloidial silver, C60 suspended in true virgin olive oil, Cycloastragenol (TA-65), reishi, Knotweed, gotu kola, ginseng, live healthy, calorie restriction, don't stress, no accidents, problem solved! Next question please...

Larry,
I'm in need of a contact at google to explore how best to establish google as the premier digital publisher worldwide. Please have the appropriate representative contact me at: in-fo@ebooksinmotion.com.
Michael

Mr. Page, I want to work for Calico. The company's mission resonates with me, like nothing else outside of certain sci-fi novels.

I'm becoming a speech-pathologist, specializing in adult neurogenic disorders. Particularly I enjoy reading/researching the intersection of mental-health issues and communication disorders.

Keep the updates coming. Hope to shake your hand someday!

This is awesome!   They will love #GravitationalWellness

Very curious to see where you take this new venture. Many folks in need of services, and at the same time a very challenging space for tech ventures.  Will you be partnering with existing startups in the space? If so, I would love to start a conversation. My personal interest is in improving the quality of life for aging folks and their family members and caregivers. Technology is a part of that equation. margueriterao@gmail.com(founder, music tech startup for caregivers; founder, mindfulness-based dementia care program, UCSF; new program development and clinical supervisor, assisted living community)

"projects that seem strange or speculative" are the ones that break boundaries. I wonder if collaborating with SENS Research Foundation and Aubrey de Gray makes sense in any way. Either way, I think this will be great! Good luck!

Health problem can be minimized if we live happy satisfied life. Medicines can help to live long but does not give guarantee of happy life. 

Hell yeah, Larry!  This is awesome.  I am very proud to be a share holder of this fine company.  The war on aging is on for real now. 

Where can I apply? I would work there for free.

It is very interesting to see Google investing in this kind of company. I would definitely like to work in something like this. There are many socio-economical problems that we will be facing in a decade or two (at least in Mexico). It would be a good idea to think of the different issues that might arrise in different countries and tackle does along with this initiative. We are washing out health to have a better life ahead but we don't know how we will support it without that health.

Dear Larry, Are these coincidences? Before Project 10 to the 100 you wondered about the possibility of a quick customer friendly transport as well as availability of uninterrupted energy source to support computer banks and I had opportunity to suggest ideas for both. Now at age 59 I believe that my practice over the last 4 years has made me a zero medicine healthy happy person (Had no. of diseases over previous years!!). Let me know if Calico may be intereseted in knowing further on this. Will be keen to share real life benefits. regards sanjay.limaye@gmail.com

Dear Mr. Page, 

I want to say this project looks incredibly interesting! The potential it holds is enormous and I was wondering if there are any opportunities for young healthcare professionals, such as myself, to become involved! I am currently a pharmacy student completing graduate studies in pharmacy at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences University. Myself and 6 other students were very recently assigned a project to develop a pharmacy related product or system that would bring something new to the healthcare platform in America while also keeping in mind if our product is viable from a business standpoint. We feel that this project could be a great opportunity for us while providing you with a team of highly motivated young students, hungry to make an impact. Please contact me if such an opportunity exists!

Best of regards, 
Mustafa Janoudi

Are you going to give the #NSA  a backdoor to reinstate aging in anyone they want?

I have a stem cell therapist that can cure every disease and can reverse the age 15 years in one year/3 treatments.  He uses cloned not fetal.  It takes 10 minutes and is only pain of a pinch.   +Larry Page  He cures M S, Lupus, AIDS, all Cancefs but has difficulties with the later stages on Pancreatic ALS, Parkinsons, Diabetis, Etc.  I am working on a documentary film about him and his work.

I wish you all the best.

Healthcare changes will come from outside the healthcare industry. Excellent to see a company like Google get into this field.

Your endeavors to tackle global challenges is truly inspirational, you're an example that every tech company should follow

Bonjour,

Je souhaite savoir s'il y a un comité d'éthique totalement indépendant qui serait consulté et qui pourrait encadrer ce genre d'initiative ?

Sous quelle forme les choses s'organiseraient ?

De quelle manière Google va recruter et utiliser les données ?

Plus que des réponses, ce sont avant tout des questions qu'il faut se poser.

Bien cordialement,

Guillaume GILLET

Mr. Page, as a 40-year, 400+ Surgery Cancer Patient - who unrelated to all that spent a month in a coma, dying three times, being pronounced dead the third time, in 2008, this is great news... Thanks for doing this... In thanks, this may interest you. As a retired Series 7 & 67 Financial Adviser, while reviewing Yahoo's Stock Prospectus - and Advertising Marketing Materials, I discovered one of the largest cases of Stock/Securities and Advertising Fraud cases ever... I reported it to Yahoo, The SEC, The FTC, The FCC and The DOJ/FBI IC3 - Internet Crime Division, and even FINRA, as I would have been required to while employed in the industry. The Director of Enforcement at FINRA has turned it over to her investigators to determine which agency/agencies have jurisdiction over all this. She urged me to retain a Whistleblower Attorney - and I have retained the top Whistleblower's Law Firm in the nation - who thinks it is a very interesting case, having taken it on a contingency basis. At the moment my attorneys and I are getting the runaround from all of these agencies claiming that sequestration prevents them from taking on new investigations and prosecutions... Billions of Dollars are involved; Millions of Investors and Advertisers are being harmed, to say nothing of the harm this Fraud is causing competitors, and all of us as the cost of all this Fraud trickles down to each of us in the long term... Again, Thanks for all your work for the greater good - something I am trying to do with this Whistleblower case - even if The Feds want to leave me blowing in the wind during sequestration... Yahoo is blocking my emails to and from my attorneys and others, making it impossible to "Open" these important communications... My attorneys and I have switched to Gmail for that needed communication to get this resolved...

This is a noble cause and I wish that you'll succeed.

Cool.. keep on going Larry.

derp

Congrats Larry. The news comes just days after I visited my grandparents. It was painful to realize that I had to remind my granddaddy that I was his grandson. 

+Larry Page No web page yet?

derp (O_•)

brand.joseluiz@gmail.com

Get Aubrey de Grey on there.

Ya aging has always been a problem 

I applaud the goal, but, I hope someone gives some thought to the problems that would happen when they are successful.  Death, although not fun to think about or experience, is a part of the natural cycle of things.  If people stop dying or greatly extend their lives, their consumption continues 'forever'.  They need a place to live, things to eat, sewage to process, air to breath, entertainment,transportation, energy, water etc.  All that takes resources from the environment and, at least at the moment, mankind is a net drain on natural resources for our planet.  We don't have a people shortage any place on earth... but we have a resource shortage in lots of places, especially developed areas.

I hope they build sustainability into whatever business model they create. The infrastructure systems we have in place such as electricity, water and sewage would have to change, especially if we continue with the idea of urban centers for populations.

If successful, this will be the most demanded product the world has ever seen.  It will have the power to influence decisions by entire societies and cultures.  It's a Promethean level goal.  I just hope that we aren't punished like Prometheus if we don't think the whole problem through.

But, best of luck to the team!  What a great adventure!  Tell me how to sign up to be a part of it!

you, got motorola, dismembered her and discard us.  My life changed, my family changed and thousands of family changed. It's brutal to our Chinese whom look forward to all the happy. Maybe you are the god, but to us, you are the evil.

Mr. +Larry Page .. if ur reading this... what do u think about Ayurveda.. and its implication with medicines?? Jst asking lol

Your contribution to humanity's future has been truly remarkable Larry. I doubt if I could have gotten as far as I have with my international patent application  without the security provided by gmail. And thus I'd like to repay your generous effort. I've been a strict vegetarian since 1971, and graduated to fruitarian  in 1987. Now armed with compelling evidence, and a better understanding of dietary cause and effect, I'm very grateful for my decision.  I'm willing to have my crafted physiology tested for the sake of posterity, and I look forward to discussing the cellular engramming aspect and the interspecies  triggering effects of consuming  other creatures hormones, plant or animal.  After all, the only food packet that nature designs specifically to be food are eggs and mothers' milk. I believe -- as Genesis states -- that seeds and fruits (plant eggs) are meant to be the sole human diet. And it's great food, as delicious as can be.  I enjoy perfect health.

I hope this post is brought to your attention and we are able to chat about the subject.

God bless your effort Larry.

david

Mr. +Larry Page Good on you sir!  It is about time there is a concerted effort to solve the issue of aging and death. For too long too many people have accepted this as unsolvable and thus our fate while relying on the hope of an eternal afterlife. This mass delusion of a possibility for an eternal afterlife has limited our species from advancing beyond death.  I for one don't wish to die and don't believe a kingdom in heaven is awaiting us. How is it so hard to believe that we can with concerted effort beat this? And to those who believe in a higher power how do you know that this isn't part of the ultimate plan.... ?  If there was a god that created us and gave us the capacity to think and a will to live then why is it heresy to believe that we should be working to create our own immortality? 

+Larry Page Why not just create more apps until you have every aspect of everyone's mind backed up in the cloud?

Hurry, I'm already elderly!

+Jamie Simmons If there is a God, he/she/it will retire before I do.

Belki

Very smart play!

Involvement by Google into the current Health IT development will help in the effort to keep a focus on Open Source, patient centered HIE Networks.  I would invite Google to become involved in CaHIE during this formative stage and perhaps call a conference of current HIE and emerging HIE efforts in California.

Awesome, seems like yours is one of the only behemoth tech companies that gets it.

How Do i apply for a job at this new venture, I have all the skills and technical know how you required for this company to move forward and I was going to start my own fund but now you have these which complimented my innovative platform med.

Que linda idea ,la salud es muy importante Dios lo bendiga Larry

Great move, this is an area where lots of work is needed,
Best of luck

Since last year I was wondering when you would announce something like this :-) Well done ! With Google big data and your search algorithms, I'm sure you will be able to cross medical research informations and start to find something.

Good job 

your company had me on hold for more than an hour.  the only department that picks up is your new sales department.  gee, there's a surprise.  there is no way to file a complaint about one of your partners, and your form is limited and does not allow for any documentation that is in the form of an email.

 If you're so concerned with aging, then bear in mind that i am a senior citizen that has been ripped off by one of your google partners, Strategic Marketing Solutions who took my money and refuses to do the work.  And they laugh that i can't do anything because i am in NY and they are in oregon,  and were stupid enough to do that in writing.

I am so sick of you kids who refuse to have any real interaction other than this kind of nonsense.  Pick up the freaking phone, why doncha?  don't want to hear it?  well too bad.  I don't want to get ripped off.   go ahead. call me.  631-329-6722.  bet you don't have the nerve or the class.

Where do I apply for a position?

Great initiative - wish you all the success in it.

Larry! This is an incredible step for Google. I have long been a supporter of Google pushing for a greater good and hope that perhaps I could even become part of that. I am young, so there is still much to learn, but this is my field of interest and I would very much like to not only see this succeed, but work on it as well! I could see myself devoting the rest of my life to work like this. Whatever may happen, I wish you guys the best of luck in your new endeavor!

Hi +Larry Page , have you guys thought about the increased pressure that extended life would have on the #environment, at the global scale. Have you thought about the carrying capacity of our planet and how the #resource is used? I'm an ecologist and I think like an ecologist. I think that on a global scale and looking at the planet as a system, diseases are the symptoms of a global problem. I may be wrong by simplifying things like that, but I feel that extending human lifespan by fixing symptoms will in the end yield a negative feedback on the environment and ultimately on #humanity.
I feel that most of the problem reside in how people use their resource, whether it's the energy to drive their car, to produce electricity, or the food they eat or how they think. If you can change that, maybe you can get people to thrive and live longer.
Are you worried you're getting old Larry? You probably have enough power to change things. Use it well...
;-)

That's great +Larry Page. Now is there anything you could put together to help out with this little mess. Go GE!  http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/09/japan-meteorological-research-institute-60000000000-bq-of-cs-137-and-sr-90-is-leaking-to-the-open-ocean-every-single-day/