jewhitson · Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology · ✭

@mario_perez Oh for sure, it's great work and the increase in median lifespan is significant, but it's not the dramatic increase in lifespan I am talking about. Many different treatments have been sh… (View Post)

@NickOttens I think that milestone awards are a great idea. Age reversal is going to be a marathon, not a sprint. It's extremely unlikely that any "magic bullet" will be discovered given th… (View Post)

@Jozef, I see a few issues here. Not the least of which is that editing the human genome is illegal, and for good reason. It opens a ton of ethical questions that extend far beyond a discussion of ju… (View Post)

I think a major thing that needs to be sorted out in defining this prize is whether it should focus on healthspan, lifespan, or both. In the geroscience field currently, most of the focus is on healt… (View Post)