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Given how little we know about stopping aging, and that blocking senescence also requires having a cure for cancer which society has thus far failed to find aft
by usaar333 15y ago
Given how little we know about stopping aging, and that blocking senescence also requires having a cure for cancer which society has thus far failed to find after spending something like $10B a year on it, I'm extremely skeptical of your claim about cost and time frame. Do you have a source for that?
- reasonattlm 15y agoWe in fact know a very great deal about stopping aging. This book is a crash course in the science and what it means: http://www.amazon.com/Ending-Aging-Rejuvenation-Breakthroughs-Lifetime/dp/0312367066 http://www.amazon.com/Ending-Aging-Rejuvenation-Breakthrough... If it wasn't illegal to commercially develop ways to treat aging, there would be a lot more progress than has happened to date. http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2010/03/the-roadblock-that-is-the-fda.php http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2010/03/the-roadblock-tha... Making humans immune to cancer in the SENS proposals is accomplished via this methodology: http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2008/06/complicating-wilt.php http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2008/06/complicating-wilt... But from where I stand, watching research fairly closely for some years, I'm not particularly worried about cancer - the next generation of targeted and immune therapies under development now will be highly effective, and are looking very good in the laboratory: http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2010/01/the-prospect-of-cancer-does-not-worry-me.php http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2010/01/the-prospect-of-c... The $1 billion figure for realizing SENS is referenced in these items; I'm not aware of a full line item breakout: http://www.sens.org/files/pdf/SIAAR-PP.pdf http://www.sens.org/files/pdf/SIAAR-PP.pdf http://www.sens.org/files/pdf/A4M04-PP.pdf http://www.sens.org/files/pdf/A4M04-PP.pdf