ICE Just Jailed One of America's Top Young Age-Reversing Scientists

Image by Getty / Futursim Treatments Despite being backed by death-fearing billionaires, Donald Trump's administration has detained — and seeks to deport — an acclaimed anti-aging researcher. As the New York Times reports, 30-year-old Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born lab researcher at the Harvard Medical School, was detained at Boston's Logan Airport upon returning from a trip to France. Soon after Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in his second attempt to annex its former Eastern Bloc neighbor, Petrova fled Russia out of fear that her opposition to the war would lead to repression or worse. Her trip to France offered a chance to reconnect with old friends from Moscow who had, like her, left for political reasons — and to pick up some rare, super-finely-sliced frog embryos from a Parisian lab that her supervisor, research scientist Leon Peshkin, was affiliated with. According to the Customs officials who pulled Petrova aside on February 18, the researcher's only crime was failing to de ... Read full article.