The Stage is Set for More Rapid Progress Towards Human Longevity in the Next Decade

Today's popular science article is a tour of a few of the higher profile lines of research and development relevant to treating aging as a medical condition. The state of the field has changed greatly over the last decade, not least of these changes being a vast increase in the funding devoted to clinical translation of age-slowing and rejuvenation therapies. Cynically, I suspect that it is the funding that ensures that the popular science press takes a more respectful tone than they did ten years ago. It is much harder to advance (in writing!) a knee-jerk dismissal of a field of science when billions of dollars of funding and many large, conservative institutions are involved, as they are these days. As you read the article, spare a thought for the many people - scientists, advocates, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists, some of whom are no longer with us - who spent years to decades laboring in comparative obscurity to build the foundations that led to the present stage of growth and interest in producing viable treatments for degenerative aging. The sudden sea change of public perception, funding, and breadth of research over the past decade, and indeed the advent of the entire longevity industry as it stands today, didn't just happen by accident. Success tends to erase the slow and painful process of bootstrapping that came before it, but that bootstrapping was still necessary and valuable. Can ageing be cured? Scientists are giving it a try Scientis...
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