By Eleanor Garth – Longevity.Technology –
New paper proposes tackling aging organ by organ, cell by cell, using proactive, systemic therapies based on replacement rather than repair.
What if, rather than striving to unravel aging’s every molecular cause, we simply replaced its effects? That is the question at the heart of a new Perspective published in Nature Aging by Sierra Lore, Jesse Poganik, Anthony Atala, George Church, Vadim Gladyshev, Morten Scheibye-Knudsen and Eric Verdin. In the paper, the authors propose a unified framework for approaching aging through replacement – biological and synthetic – and argue that many of the technologies needed to do so already exist, if not in practice, then in proof-of-concept.
