Have you read this book? What do you think of it, and anti-aging in general?
>>9097811
I think that the idea of extending life indefinitely is very popular among wealthy people and so there is a huge financial incentive to discover how this can be achieved
>>9097811
I know some people who would fall in the mega-rich category, generational billionaires. They still suffer from the very same incurable diseases, the same maladies and expect to live a normal life 80-95 if they're lucky. So i really don't hold out much hope for great developments reaching us in our lifetimes.
I know one whose son has bad autism and a few other things and he has thrown huge sums of money at it, research but also the best schools, programs, learning aids etc. He would give everything he has away to make his son healthy, in a heartbeat, but we just aren't there.
It'll probably be our children's children who are the first to be commercially edited embryonically.