A Look Back at 2023: Progress Towards the Treatment of Aging as a Medical Condition

The market has been in the doldrums and it has been a tough year for fundraising, both for non-profits and biotech startups. The conferences have exhibited more of an academic focus as companies tightened belts and postponed investment rounds, while investors stayed home. Not that this halts the flow of hype for some projects, and nor has it slowed media commentary on the longevity industry as it presently stands. A few of the articles in that commmentary are even interesting to read! The field has grown and is more mature now than has ever been the case. Biotech of all forms is a challenging field with a high failure rate, but the biotechnology of treating aging looks to become a vast industry in the years ahead. The first signs of tiers in the industry are beginning to emerge, as some groups pull further ahead than others.

But I have talked less this past year about the community and spent more time sampling the firehose flow of research papers from the aging research field. So I thought that I would try something different for this year's retrospective. Rather than grouping the output by mechanism of aging, a very Strategies of Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) way of looking at the world that appeals to me, this year I'll instead try grouping by age-related condition, skipping over all of the research that was in too early a stage or too mechanism-focused to discuss application to a specific condition. That also meant skipping over some interesting commentary...

Source: Fight Aging! - December 29, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs