Aging is a word that means different things to different people. Some people think of Botox as an anti-aging treatment.
When it comes to tech people and internet intellectuals Aubrey de Gray defined aging a while ago in a way that doesn’t include dealing with Cancer and Heart disease.
Aubrey de Gray basically proposed to tackle aging directly instead of spending so much resources on trying to solve various illnesses.
When Larry Page speaks about aging in the way he does it’s reasonable to expect that he uses the word in the way Aubrey de Gray frames the debate.
Aubrey de Grey actually does view fighting cancer as a core part of ending aging. His SENS program has 7 steps, one of which is OncoSENS, which specifically is targeted at eliminating cancer.
Heart disease is also an inevitable consequence of aging (because of cell death weakening the heart) RepleniSENS would address this. GlycoSENS would address other cardiovascular problems like arteriosclerosis.
The WILD strategy that they propose is something very different then the way cancer gets addressed normally by big pharma/biotech.
If Larry would think of addressing cancer being part of the aging that he wants to fight I doubt he would have made the argument that it only gives you 3 years of additional life if we would solve cancer.
Aging is a word that means different things to different people. Some people think of Botox as an anti-aging treatment.
When it comes to tech people and internet intellectuals Aubrey de Gray defined aging a while ago in a way that doesn’t include dealing with Cancer and Heart disease.
Aubrey de Gray basically proposed to tackle aging directly instead of spending so much resources on trying to solve various illnesses.
When Larry Page speaks about aging in the way he does it’s reasonable to expect that he uses the word in the way Aubrey de Gray frames the debate.
Aubrey de Grey actually does view fighting cancer as a core part of ending aging. His SENS program has 7 steps, one of which is OncoSENS, which specifically is targeted at eliminating cancer.
Heart disease is also an inevitable consequence of aging (because of cell death weakening the heart) RepleniSENS would address this. GlycoSENS would address other cardiovascular problems like arteriosclerosis.
ETA: To clarify, by “aging” I mean senescence.
The WILD strategy that they propose is something very different then the way cancer gets addressed normally by big pharma/biotech.
If Larry would think of addressing cancer being part of the aging that he wants to fight I doubt he would have made the argument that it only gives you 3 years of additional life if we would solve cancer.