Creating trends - Life extension - Anti-aging - Biotech

An important part of investing is being able to recognize trends and use them to invest your high risk percentage (mine is 10% of the total that i have allocated, that i invest in high risk high reward companies and projects).
For today i will take a look at the companies that research specifically to increase the life span. Just in case you don't know, our life expectancy at the actual moment is increasing with 4 hours per week. Just imagine that.

And i do not talk about this rare "disease" that is slowing aging, or about foundations and charities like Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (Sens) Research Foundation, Ellison Medical Foundation, Paul F Glenn Foundation for Medical Research but about proper companies that are researching difference pathways on their ways to technological immortality

When we talk about U.K. we think at Britain's booming biotech industry. Few facts that are good to know. Venture capital funding went up by 71 per cent to $430bn (£280) in 2014. IPO activity reached £408bn in 2014 - almost equal to the amount raised in the nine previous years. Two IPOs have already happened in 2015. The UK has outperformed the rest of Europe in the last five years. The future look bright in this sector.

Biggest and most known names in UK are:

AstraZeneca
Pharmaceutical company
AstraZeneca plc is a British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biologics company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

AstraZeneca PLC
LON: AZN - 15 Sep 17:07 GMT+1
4,328.00 Price increase 43.50 (1.02%)

Shire plc
Company
Shire Plc is a Jersey-registered, Irish-headquartered global specialty biopharmaceutical company. Originating in the United Kingdom with a large operational base in the United States.

Shire PLC
LON: SHP - 15 Sep 16:56 GMT+1
4,766.67 Price increase 23.67 (0.50%)

Some small companies are known for different reasons, like  

Oxford BioMedica
Company
Oxford BioMedica is a biopharmaceutical company specialising in the development and commercialisation of innovative gene-based medicines. It was established in 1995 as a spin out from Oxford University.

Oxford BioMedica plc
LON: OXB - 15 Sep 16:36 GMT+1
8.45Price increase0.00 (0.00%)

Big world companies that are doing well (or not very well lately) are:

Pfizer
Pharmaceutical company
Pfizer, Inc. /ˈfaɪzər/ is an American multinational pharmaceutical corporation headquartered in New York City, New York, with its research headquarters in Groton, Connecticut. It is among the world's largest pharmaceutical companies by revenues.

Pfizer
LON: PFZ - 15 Sep 16:43 GMT+1
33.00Price increase0.11 (0.33%)

Novartis AG
Pharmaceutical company
Novartis International AG is a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, ranking number one in sales among the world-wide industry in 2013

Novartis AG
VTX: NOVN - 15 Sep 17:30 GMT+2
93.40Price increase1.10 (1.19%)

Sanofi
Pharmaceutical company
Sanofi S.A. is a French multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Paris, France, as of 2013 the world's fifth-largest by prescription sales.

Sanofi SA
EPA: SAN - 15 Sep 17:37 CET
87.99Price increase0.36 (0.41%)

GlaxoSmithKline
Pharmaceutical company
GlaxoSmithKline plc is a British multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Brentford, London. It was the world's sixth-largest pharmaceutical company in 2014, after Pfizer, Novartis, Sanofi, Hoffmann-La Roche and Merck

GlaxoSmithKline PLC
LON: GSK - 15 Sep 17:07 GMT+1
1,290.00Price increase5.00 (0.39%)

AbbVie
Company
AbbVie Inc. is a research-based biopharmaceutical company.

AbbVie Inc
NYSE: ABBV - 15 Sep 18:26 EDT
59.20 Price increase 0.26 (0.44%)

Calico Resources Corp and Human longevity inc are some companies good enough to keep an eye on their evolution.