So Much Supporting Material for SENS
As pointed out at FuturePundit, so much of modern medical research acts to reinforce this message: the underlying logic of the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) is the best way forward to tackle age-related disease and frailty. Identify the damage that leads to problems, develop the means to fix it, then get in there and repair it early on, before it causes major problems; this is the utilitarian approach to any machinery, be it biological or otherwise. The present dominant paradigm for medical research and the treatment of age-related disease - patching up problems after the fact - is expensive and ultimately fails. If this patching was all we could do, then we should do it, and be glad we could make some difference to the health of millions. But it is not all we can do - so we must do better.