Calico
excerpt via Martine Rothblatt and the Human Future
[...] “She’s an outstanding conceptual salesperson,” says her friend and fellow futurist Ray Kurzweil. ... With Kurzweil, ... Martine has invested in research, based at MIT, into stem-cell-like cancer therapies. And her friend Craig Venter, who was among the first scientists to sequence the human genome, has joined her project to raise pigs for organ transplantation into human subjects. Martine herself owns a pig farm called Revivacor, and expects to conduct a successful pig-human transplant by the end of the decade. Last year she got her pilot’s license, so that she might speedily transport pig organs to waiting human patients.
... Kurzweil, who is a director of engineering at Google (which has just established a new company, Calico, devoted to life extension), is one of the nation’s most prominent popularizers of the idea of digital immortality, and Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal, has contributed more than $3.5 million of his own money to ending aging. [...]
source: http://www.aboutthesky.com/smallstorm-blog/387-martine-rothblatt
via wikipedia:
"Calico Life Sciences LLC is an Alphabet subsidiary responsible for health research and development, life sciences and biotechnology. Originating on September 18, 2013 prior to the Google restructuring and headed by Bill Maris[3]^(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_%28company%29#cite_note-auto1-3)[4]^(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_%28company%29#cite_note-auto2-4)[2]^(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_%28company%29#cite_note-auto-2)[1]^(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_%28company%29#cite_note-venturebeat.com-1) with the goal of combating aging and diseases of aging,[5]^(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_%28company%29#cite_note-5) it was incorporated into Alphabet with Google's other sister divisions in 2015.[6]
In Google's 2013 Founders Letter, Larry Page described Calico as a company focused on "health, well-being, and longevity"[7]^(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calico_%28company%29#cite_note-7) and the company's name additionally as a play on "California Life Company."[8]"
1+8= 9, ^see "Life ^Path 9" ^section ^for ^more ^context ^about ^the ^number 18.