VATIS UPDATE Article

The Biogerontology Research Foundation, the United Kingdom, has announced the launch of a crowdfunding campaign ‘MouseAge’, to develop and test photographic biomarkers of aging in mice in collaboration with scientists from Harvard University, the United Kingdom, University of Oxford, the United Kingdom, Youth Laboratories, Germany, and Insilico Medicine, the United States.

The project’s aim is to develop novel biomarkers of aging in mice for the purposes of testing the effect of healthspan and lifespan-extending interventions. The project is live at https://www.lifespan.io, a crowdfunding platform for aging research institutions that has launched several successful campaigns for SENS Research Foundation, the United States International Longevity Alliance, France, and CellAge, Scotland.

The project utilizes Insilico Medicine’s novel deep learning platforms to correlate changes in physical appearance with biological and chronological age. Insilico is leading the pack in the intersection of deep learning and aging research, and is well known for its use of advances in genomics, big data analysis, and deep learning for in silico drug discovery and drug repurposing for ageing and age-related diseases.