We're building the tools the body never had.
darkMatter develops its own technology for the damage that ages us.
Five programs, one idea.
Each program goes after damage the body can't repair on its own.
A tool to break down deposits in human tissue, taking its cue from fungi.
In development
Bringing in a tool human cells lack for pulling knotted proteins apart.
In development
Releasing the brake that keeps an aging immune system in constant alarm.
In development
The timing that coordinates repair, and what happens when it stalls.
In development
Reading age from how a cell moves and recovers, not from how it looks.
In developmentSome damage, the body can't clear.
Your cells repair damage every day. But a few kinds of waste build up over decades that none of those repair tools can break down. The body never had tools for these, because for most of human history people didn't live long enough for it to matter.
01Sugar slowly glues the fibres in your arteries and skin together, and they stiffen.
02Waste collects inside heart and brain cells that the cell has no way to digest.
03Some proteins knot themselves too tight to undo, and stay that way.
Our bodies collect their own version of wood.
Nature built a tool like this once.
For millions of years, nothing on Earth could break wood down. Then a family of fungi evolved the tools to do it, and forests began to rot.
That is the kind of tool we are building: one that reaches what the body never could. It is the idea every darkMatter program starts from.
Interested in the technology?
We talk with research partners and companies about the programs and the IP behind them. This is early research: we are not selling a treatment, and we don't claim to reverse aging.