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The Methuselah Mouse Prize, or Mprize, is the first in a series of efforts to invigorate the field of anti-aging research. The prize has grown rapidly since its launch in 2003, with donations pouring in from people interesting in seeing real healthy life extension take off. It has appeared in the media all around the world. With your help, the Mprize can invigorate anti-aging research. Time and time again, research prizes have proven their worth in stimulating growth in a field of scientific endeavor - the return on investment is amazingly large.
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Now you can keep track of the prize in real time, viewing new donations instantly using the Methuselah Mouse Life-a-thon desktop companion. Stay abreast of the latest healthy life extension news with the scrolling news ticker, and browse headlines on the latest medical and longevity related breakthroughs with the RSS news feed browser. Use the life-line analysis tool to plot a graph of your expected lifespan, and the predicted effect the prize will have on it.
Give it a whirl today! It is important for this first prize to continue to do well and attract attention. Interested, wealthy parties are waiting in the wings to see how the effective the Mprize is.
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Your modest donations help to draw well-known and wealthy donors like William A. Haseltine, Founder of Human Genome Sciences and promoter of Rejuvenative Medicine, futurist Ray Kurzweil and Robert Gelfond of MagicQ. A successful prize (one that attracts donations from the public, news articles from the press and competing entries from inspired researchers) will lead to much larger prizes in the future. These prizes will speed up the development of real anti-aging medicine to extend all of our healthy lives.
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For an essay on the good that research prizes do in all areas of science, follow the link below:
Incentives can spur faster boundary pushing, discovery and development: on average, a prize of $1 million will result in $16 million invested in research. Amazing! In the grand tradition of putting money where our mouths are, the Longevity Meme has donated to the Mprize. We wholeheartedly encourage you all to contribute a modest amount as well; this is probably the best opportunity you will see in which a small amount can eventually greatly extend your healthy life span.
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Please take the time to visit the prize site and read about the effort. Healthy life extension in mice will encourage more rapid advances in life extension for humans.
The Mprize is a first step towards engaging and interesting those with much, much more money: a later goal would be setting up multi-million-dollar prizes for proven interventions in the human aging process. If the Mprize does well, we will all live that much longer. Reinvigorating real, meaningful scientific anti-aging research is vital in the search for longer healthy lives.
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| Last updated July 18, 2005 |
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