Is it possible for humans to live to be 500 years old?

Venture capital Google Ventures has been investing in high-tech companies such as Ube and Nest, but the largest proportion of its investment is science, especially oncology. Bill Maris, partner and president of Google Ventures, said in an interview with Bloomberg:

"If you ask me today, is it possible for humans to live to be 500 years old?" My answer is yes. ”

20 years ago, we did not have genomics to treat cancer with poisons. But now we can cure cancer with reverse engineered stem cells, and now we can legally invest in a cancer treatment company in the United States.

Last year, Google Ventures offered a 130 million-dollar B-round investment to New York start-up company Flatiron Tiyatien, which has a cloud platform to analyze cancer data.

It also owns a 4% per cent stake in Foundation Dentistry, a company that uses genetic information to help promote personalized cancer treatment. Roche, the world's largest biotech company, acquired a majority stake in Foundation in January.

Google's investment agency has added 30% of its investment in life sciences in two years, according to Bloomberg. Maris and his team have ambitious plans for the future of science and health care.

We're on the verge of an explosion in science and technology, and it's hard not to be attracted by the scientists ' descriptions of the future they're predicting. In this vision of the future, science will be able to repair DNA damage caused by sun exposure, smoking or excessive drinking. Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's and other diseases caused by aging will be repaired and eradicated at a molecular level. This possibility is bizarre but hopeful. We may not live forever, but we can live longer and better.

These are the biggest bets Google Ventures wants to be the ultimate winner. Maris said:

"We're not trying to get a little bit of progress, we're trying to win this game about death, and part of the game is to live better," he said. ”

Maris has dug up the brains of the scientific community to find the next major discovery in the field of oncology and life sciences, and investing in scientific ventures is one of the processes. Maris also invited doctors who are trained, knowledgeable and able to make decisions on life science start-ups to become Google's ventures partners.

His predictions are:

"After 20 years, chemotherapy will become a very primitive treatment, just like using a telegram now." ”