They will see a market if we all shout loudly enough to show them one! If only anti-aging, regenerative and life extension medicine could be taken as seriously. The upstream people were slow in getting their act together, and there was little we could do at our end. This must happen for progress towards a cure for aging to be comparable to progress in the fight against AIDS and cancer.
Beyond that, there is also the tantalizing promise of greater insight into the normal mechanisms of aging.
htmlIt looks like a drug used to treat diabetes has been found to mimic the healthy life extension effects of calorie restriction in mice.
Activism and advocacy. As you all know by now, this research is the best way forward to real, meaningful life- and health-extending medicine.
It's really not hard to be healthy, and the benefits are great. We should see it proved or disproved fairly soon.
Along with theraputic cloning, stem cells are one of the most promising lines of anti-aging, regenerative medicine.
There should be more results coming in the next year or so from ongoing research on the mechanisms of calorie restriction. "When the normal worms are in the nursing home, really, these guys are out on the golf course or backpacking in the woods.
Apparently, healthy life extension benefits similar to those offered by calorie restriction have been observed in rats fed a diet that is light in some amino acids.
After that, our cells start to accumulate defects and damage more rapidly.
htmlHere's a somewhat more concise article from the LEF News on recent research on the longevity of yeast.