We 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-Rejuve

We 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