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Hey this sounds like a super cool venture that you all are working on. However, I was a bit interested in how the process works as you age. For instance, from what I understand Evera extracts our youngest cells. So would I be able to start banking cells at age 50 or 60 compared to say age 20 and would there be any differences in the cells collected?

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Nice question! Ideally we all bank as soon as possible. However, there are still benefits regardless of what age you decide to preserve your cells. Your cells are the youngest today. They'll be older and more damaged tomorrow. See this paper (https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.3749) which details how there is an increase in harmful damaging mutations with the specific cells we are interested in as a result of age.

The cells in your body at age 60 are going to carry more harmful mutations than the cells you had when you were 20. See this paper (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3836174/) for a description of the molecular aging process. Let me know if you have any more questions!

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