The most important fact justifying aging/longevity drug discovery is that *lifespan-extending drugs exist.* Lots of them. If you screen 1280 well-known drugs and natural products on nematode worms, 5% of them significantly extend lifespan. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/acel.12163 …
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In principle, gene therapies can be much more flexible and powerful tools than small molecules, and I'm impressed by some of the results so far (e.g. Oisin's DNA-targeting senolytics.) But small molecules can be tested faster, and some of them are already FDA-approved.
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