http://www.sandiegou...church-reverse/
While this is just an article, it sheds some light on what George Church's team is working on reverse aging. Hopefully we'll hear more details, soon from Church's team.
"A lot of the drugs in development are aimed at effects, those things that are downstream of the cause of age," said Church, 61. "The real cause is probably genetic ... We're trying to get at those causes and reverse those. We're talking about reversing the epigenetic changes that are at the nucleus of every cell.
He said that aging should be thought of as a program that might be reversed, noting, "If we could take one of my skin cells and turn it into an embryo-like cell and turn it back into a skin cell it has reset almost all of the developmental indications of age. We have 65 gene therapies that are being test in mice and larger animals. If they go well we will go straight into human trials. That could be as little as two years ..."
"I don't think it is about stalling or curing, its about reversing. Curing gives you the impression of immortality. Stalling gives you the impression that you'll be 85 forever, which is not great."
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I already see certain blogs using their typical titles "interesting comments made by George Church" ... and then go on forever with same words, telling us how wrong Church's approach is, and how rightful others are ... lol ... on the other hand, things are getting very interesting in this field and I like that a lot, because we can start seeing results and not just talks]
... and yes, this is another "clown" that thinks "aging is a program that might be reversed" ... for some reason, I like these "clowns" a lot.