What Next for UNITY Biotechnology?

What follows here is an inside baseball discussion relating to the companies working on senolytic therapies, biotechnologies capable of selectively destroying senescent cells. The presence of these cells is one of the causes of aging and age-related disease, and their removal is the first of a number of rejuvenation therapies based on the SENS vision that will emerge over the next few decades. Human trials of the first senolytics will be starting this year and next, and by the mid-2020s most people in the wealthier parts of the world will have the opportunity to remove this part of the burden of aging. This is a wondrous development: based on research to date, removing senescent cells from old individuals is a robust and reliable way to turn back the clock on many measures of aging and markers of age-related disease. I should preface the rest of this post by noting that competition in the marketplace is a great thing, but only because some investors suffer meaningful losses. The threat of loss is necessary to the alchemy by which self-interest is turned into altruism. Only competition with real penalties for failure can drive the faster progress that benefits everyone. Yet regardless of who wins or loses in terms of the value of their shares, we all win when reasonably priced senolytic therapies become widely accessible. In that sense, investing in credible ventures aiming at the production of rejuvenation therapies is a great opportunity: even failure contributes to p...
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