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VitaDAO Backs Research into Chronic Oral Disease
Periodontal disease affects more than 47% of adults aged 30 and over. For people over 65 years of age, that number rises to […]
VitaDAO Funds ApoptoSENS Project for $253,000
Preventing the dysfunction of natural killer (NK) cells may be a promising area to explore in the fight against cellular senescence. Researchers are hoping to define the correlation between the increase in senescent cells and […]
VitaDAO Invests $1 Million into Biotech Company Turn.Bio
Marking one of VitaDAO’s largest investments to date, the decentralized organization has allocated $1,000,000 in funding to Turn.Bio. This company, also known as Turn Biotechnologies, plans to undertake preclinical efficacy […]
The Evandro Fang Lab Receives VitaDAO’s Third IP-NFT Funding
On June 15, 2022, VitaDAO hosted an online IP-NFT Transfer Ceremony honoring its third project funded via an IP-NFT: Evandro Fang Lab. The finances delivered to this lab will go toward […]
H+ DAO and Transhumanism with Dr. Natasha Vita-More
“Transhumanism is a philosophy, worldview, and a movement,” Dr. Natasha Vita-More states in the book “Transhumanism: What is it?” Essentially, it’s the idea of being able to move beyond […]
VitaDAO Celebrates 1 Year of Funding Longevity Projects
June 2022 marked the first anniversary of VitaDAO passing its Gnosis Token Auction. Since its founding, the biotech DAO has invested […]
Korolchuk Lab’s Early Research Gets $285,000 from VitaDAO
The laboratory of Viktor Korolchuk, Professor of Molecular Cell at Newcastle University, has received funding to research autophagy activators and ways in which they can help prevent age-related diseases. Defective autophagy inhibits the function of […]
Kickstarting DAO Funding with the Longevity Molecule Project
Founded with the aim of financing early-stage longevity research through innovative methods, VitaDAO funded its first opening project, The Longevity Molecule, just months after the DAO’s formation. The […]
Designing a DAO: Insight from the VitaDAO Team
DAOs are relatively new forms of organizations that use blockchain technology to function in a decentralized, autonomous way. Like traditional organizations, they […]
How DAOs Balance Decentralized Decisions and Efficiency
It’s often said that too many cooks in the kitchen can spoil the soup. Transferring this notion of too many voices to the DAO, it begs the question: how does anything get done? While the concept […]
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