Thursday, April 18, 2024

Anti-aging 3

 Follow up to these posts

Last fall the conference called COSM hosted a discussion about anti-aging technologies. Hopeful CEO's of companies researching these technologies, as well as a neuroscientist, defined their goals. 

They believe it will be possible to mitigate age-related decline, maybe to the point that death could be "elective." 

Here's what drives their work forward:

  • They're making "genetic medicines for health and longevity" which disassemble damaged cells when they don't self-destruct as they're supposed to ("senescent").
  • "Instead of making a drug and injecting it, we program [the patient's] own cells to produce remedies inside them, trying to build an app store for the human body."


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