Saudi Arabia will spend $1 billion per year on research to find treatments that slow down aging
Oil kingdoms fear that their population is ageing at an accelerated pace and hope to test drugs that can reverse this problem. The first drug to be tested is metformin, a diabetes medication.
Source:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/06/07/1053132/saudi-arabia-slow-aging-metformin/
