Longevity Industry Whitepapers from the Aging Analytics Agency

The Longevity International project of the Aging Analytics Agency arises from the Biogerontology Research Foundation / Deep Knowledge Ventures portion of our growing community. The various companies and non-profit initiatives associated with this part of the community - such as In Silico Medicine and the International Aging Research Portfolio - share a focus on data. Those involved are now possessed of quite a lot of information about funding, technologies, and just who is doing what in the research community and market of young biotechnology companies. Thus the Aging Analytics Agency is a consultancy that aims to put to use this domain knowledge of the current field. The intended audience is venture firms and large companies with a newfound interest in medicine to treat aging, currently drawn in to the field by the present flurry of development in senolytics and other areas of rejuvenation biotechnology. For today, I wanted to point out the Longevity Industry Landscape Overview for 2017, though there are other interesting materials to look through. The perspective of the authors is that of the Hallmarks of Aging rather than the SENS view of the causes of aging, but we can appreciate the points of overlap - the acknowledgement that aging has root cause forms of cell and tissue damage, and that the way forward is to address that damage. If the battle to make progress moves on to a hard-fought, evidence-based argument over which forms of damage are legitimate root causes...
Source: Fight Aging! - Category: Research Authors: Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs