Predicting the Order of Arrival of the First Rejuvenation Therapies

It has been going on eight years since I last speculated on the order of arrival of the first rejuvenation therapies. Tempus fugit, and time for an updated version! Eight years is a long enough span of time for the first of those rejuvenation therapies to now exist, albeit in a prototypical form, arguably proven in principle but not concretely. The world progresses but my biases remain much the same: the first rejuvenation therapies to work well enough to merit the name will be based on the SENS vision, that aging is at root caused by a few classes of accumulated cell and tissue damage, and biotechnologies that either repair that damage or render it irrelevant will as a result produce rejuvenation. The number of groups aiming to produce these therapies has grown considerably. A longevity industry now exists, scores of biotech and pharmaceutical companies where eight years ago there were only a handful. We are eight years further into the grand transition across decades that is taking place in the medical life sciences, in which the treatment of aging will grow to become the majority of medicine. Age-related diseases are age-related precisely because they are caused by the same processes of damage that cause aging. The only distinctions between aging and disease are the names given to various collections of symptoms. All of frailty, disease, weakness, pain, and suffering in aging is the result of accumulated damage and consequent dysfunction at the level of cells and pr...
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