I think the direction you’ve chosen, tissue engineering, will be very useful. One important organ for aging to be rejuvenated/replaced is thymus, whose degeneration is a major cause of declining immunity with aging.
“No matter how much you supplement the body, eventually deleterious mutations will accumulate.” yes, however, in nature, deleterious mutations don’t accumulate in all species. Hydra is an example/exception. It replaces its cells at such a fast rate, that this is an important reason why it doesn’t accumulate mutations (and other damage) and manages to be biologically immortal. In fact, the direction you’ve chosen for research would do the same but at the level of tissues/organs, not cells.
I think the direction you’ve chosen, tissue engineering, will be very useful. One important organ for aging to be rejuvenated/replaced is thymus, whose degeneration is a major cause of declining immunity with aging.
“No matter how much you supplement the body, eventually deleterious mutations will accumulate.” yes, however, in nature, deleterious mutations don’t accumulate in all species. Hydra is an example/exception. It replaces its cells at such a fast rate, that this is an important reason why it doesn’t accumulate mutations (and other damage) and manages to be biologically immortal.
In fact, the direction you’ve chosen for research would do the same but at the level of tissues/organs, not cells.