I'd just like to remind you that the total annual Pharma industry R&D budget is about 70 billion $. That's for trying to cure individual diseases. I wonder how much will Google invest into trying to cure them all at once.
http://www.fiercebiotech.com/special-reports/biopharmas-top-rd-spenders-2012
SENS has been making good progress in anti-aging area with only a few million dollars of donations per year.
Google's announcement, Time magazine rather sensationalist headline.
In any case, it's nice to know that Google set its sights to "challenge ... aging and associated diseases". Apple's Tim Cook:
For too many of our friends and family, life has been cut short or the quality of their life is too often lacking. Art is one of the crazy ones who thinks it doesn’t have to be this way.
One more step towards "world optimization".