I'm pretty sure the article intends that to just be a demonstration of where progress in the entire field of anti-aging is at.

That being said, it's probably not in a submarine (http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html) article about European VC firms's best interest to start off by hyping an Israeli development.

Well observed. If you read carefully you'll see that the article is structured to first talk about progress happening around the world, then how European companies are falling behind in general, and then about which European companies are doing well.

Also, there's this headline within the article itself:

> European VC is falling behind (for now)

And also since when did we establish that telomere lengthening equals to age reversal. Cancerous cells could also increase telomere length.

Is there a claim to the contrary in the article?

That’s Startup nation, definitely not Europe.

> That's... not in Europe.

Israel is in the Eurovision Song Contest.