{"id":21437,"date":"2023-08-22T14:53:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/blockchain-takes-the-stage-at-longevitydesci-summit-in-new-york\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T14:53:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:53:19","slug":"blockchain-takes-the-stage-at-longevitydesci-summit-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nftandcrypto-news.com\/crypto\/blockchain-takes-the-stage-at-longevitydesci-summit-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Blockchain takes the stage at Longevity+DeSci summit in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"
Those seeking to slow the progress of time spent a few days immersed in that possibility from Aug. 10\u201311 at the Capitale conference hall in downtown New York City.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There, the sixth-annual Longevity+DeSci summit convened for its third in-person event \u2014 sequestered to online sessions amid the COVID-19 pandemic \u2014 following successful editions at the Cooper Union. <\/p>\n
This year also marked the first time that the event\u2019s organizer, Lifespan.io, included decentralized science (DeSci) in the title, despite the growing phenomenon\u2019s close ties to the field of longevity.<\/p>\n
Decentralized science has proven a hot byproduct of blockchain\u2019s emergence that researchers and investors are watching \u2014 even if the principles underpinning it date back to the early 2000s. Simply defined, DeSci is science that takes place outside of traditional academia. <\/p>\n
In his opening remarks on the conference\u2019s first day, mathematician and programmer turned Disney tech head Keith Comito \u2014 who founded Lifespan.io in 2014 \u2014 likened DeSci to the Jimmy Fund, an advocacy group that conducted telethons throughout the last century to raise awareness and money for cancer research, catapulting their cause to a global health priority.<\/p>\n