If it’s true that transposons are more central to aging than a lot of the people in the field think, this would likely mean that it’s harder to fix aging invivo than many people in the anti-aging field want to think. There are also no clear medical interventions you can do with the knowledge.
As far as the size of the actual sum for the experiment goes, I don’t have the expertise to reliably estimate the cost and you would need to ask someone with more knowledge on how to do genetic engineering for that.
If there’s any reason to suspect grant-givers to be uninformed on the topic, or biased against it, crowd-sourcing a sum of that size sounds possible.
If it’s true that transposons are more central to aging than a lot of the people in the field think, this would likely mean that it’s harder to fix aging invivo than many people in the anti-aging field want to think. There are also no clear medical interventions you can do with the knowledge.
As far as the size of the actual sum for the experiment goes, I don’t have the expertise to reliably estimate the cost and you would need to ask someone with more knowledge on how to do genetic engineering for that.