I agree that the amount of funding that goes into explicitly anti-aging research is often greatly exaggerated. That said, as you may have heard, Altos Labs recently got started, and rumors indicate that it’s being well funded by Jeff Bezos and maybe a few others. My general impression is that anti-aging researchers think this is a big deal.
Karl Pfleger has tried to catalog companies that are trying to address aspects of aging, and his list is quite long, possibly a great deal longer than you might expect. Biological research in fields related to aging, especially stem cell research and cancer research, is not underfunded (at least, in my estimation).
It is a big deal. It is also not as big a deal as work towards full rejuvenation would be. Altos Labs, like Calico and others before it, is attempting to cure diseases of aging. They are not, to my knowledge, attempting to achieve full rejuvenation that would prevent age-related disease by means of eternally maintained youth.
It is, in principle, easier to prevent cancer than to cure it. And the strategies you would use for each are different. There aren’t many people outside of SENS who are working on the rejuvenation-as-prevention approach.
I agree that the amount of funding that goes into explicitly anti-aging research is often greatly exaggerated. That said, as you may have heard, Altos Labs recently got started, and rumors indicate that it’s being well funded by Jeff Bezos and maybe a few others. My general impression is that anti-aging researchers think this is a big deal.
Karl Pfleger has tried to catalog companies that are trying to address aspects of aging, and his list is quite long, possibly a great deal longer than you might expect. Biological research in fields related to aging, especially stem cell research and cancer research, is not underfunded (at least, in my estimation).
It is a big deal. It is also not as big a deal as work towards full rejuvenation would be. Altos Labs, like Calico and others before it, is attempting to cure diseases of aging. They are not, to my knowledge, attempting to achieve full rejuvenation that would prevent age-related disease by means of eternally maintained youth.
It is, in principle, easier to prevent cancer than to cure it. And the strategies you would use for each are different. There aren’t many people outside of SENS who are working on the rejuvenation-as-prevention approach.