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I just hope such medical advances would be available to everyone and not just a privileged few who can afford it.
by davesque 12y ago
I just hope such medical advances would be available to everyone and not just a privileged few who can afford it.
- biomimic 12y agoIt depends on the companies working on this like Google's Calico Labs http://calicolabs.com http://calicolabs.com Berkeley Labs GenoPharmix http://genopharmix.com http://genopharmix.com Genentech or Craig Ventors http://humanlongevity http://humanlongevity
- reasonattlm 12y agoThe most likely form of longevity assurance technologies will be infusions. Think about the cost of, say, TNF inhibitors today. It is a mass-produced biologic that a bored technician runs into you through an IV, and is $5-8K per procedure last time I looked. The really expensive medicine today is either experimental (new technologies still in development) or requires the attention of a lot of highly trained staff for some time (surgeries, chemotherapies). But the mature longevity assurance technologies of tomorrow will not be individualized, since everyone ages due to the same root causes. They will be mass produced infusions of nanoparticles, gene therapy vectors, drugs to break down metabolic byproducts, that sort of thing. Factories will make them in bulk, and clinical assistants will inject a program of these things into individual patients once every ten to twenty years. Since everyone will benefit, the individual cost will drop with the massive scale of sales and delivery.
- mhb 12y agoYeah. Like the way the elite have kept big screen TVs and pocket computer/phones for only themselves.
- pjscott 12y agoThe target market is very, very large. That bodes well for prices, since the costs of R&D and red tape can be amortized across a huge number of people and long spans of time.