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Mitrix Bio
Mitrix Bio is a Bay Area biotech startup building bioreactor-grown mitochondria - the cell's power plants - packaged into vesicles it calls 'Mitlets' and delivered by injection. Founded by former SLAC accelerator manager Tom Benson, the company treats the slow decline of mitochondria as a root cause of aging and aims to manufacture autologous, young mitochondria at industrial scale so clinicians can regenerate organs, boost immunity and cognition, and extend healthy human lifespan toward 130 years.
Tom Benson
Tom Benson is the founder and CEO of Mitrix Bio, a Pleasanton, California biotech building toward whole-body mitochondrial transplantation. A serial software, hardware, and science entrepreneur, he managed the Linac Coherent Light Source femtosecond X-ray laser at Stanford's SLAC before turning his attention to the cell's power plants. His pitch is audacious and specific: grow young mitochondria from a person's own stem cells in a bioreactor, then transfuse them back to restore cellular energy and push the human lifespan toward 130 years.