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George Church spoke at Aubrey de Grey’s conference to discuss using gene editing to provide radical life extension.
George is hopeful that gene editing can be used to realize longevity escape velocity. Longevity escape velocity is where we add one year of life extension to people life in less than one year. If Longevity escape velocity is sustained then people lives would be extended until accidents or random extreme situations caused death.
George;s approach is to maximally engineer the solution. He wants to make it easy to perform 20,000 or more gene edits as a common and cheap treatment for all humans. He does not want to do just enough to extend life. Fixing one aging pathway could extend lives about two years but fixing all aging pathways at the same time could add many decades or centuries to human lives. They have a data base of the genes of over 4000 animals. They are looking at the bow head whale which lives for 200 years. They want to add any of the genes that appear to help the bow head whale live longer lives to see if in combination they would be very helpful to human lifespan.
There are several papers which show the progress in multiple and combination gene edits.
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