After reading "ending aging" I've found.... Progress is being made every day that fowards sens initiatives.
Vectors to implement gene therapy, people born with mutations in the mitochondrial dna....
I'm about as new to this stuff as one can be.
Moral of the story. SENS IS happening, not so much because of it's tenacity of achievement, but because what makes up SENS is already happening as progress towards other ends.
Which current areas of research are most beneficial towards SENS objectives? I should have jotted down notes as I read the book and cherry picked every instance of progress that Aubrey quoted from current research and trials...
It may be easier to tickle progress where it's already happeneing and beneficial towards SENS initiatives, than to go it alone...
From memory, people who's conditions are genetic, and their repair would be simliar to the repair of people with similar problems from age instead of inborn errors. Gene therapy...
I'm sure there are more than 10 causes out there, which have great merit, and in addition to that merit have simultaneous relevency towards SENS initiatives. I'm sure those more than 10 causes would love to have more support, and would probably be even more excitited to know that progress directly helping them, would result in helping others without the same problems they had.
I guess one good primer question would be, the presenters at SENS, many of them were doing their research before SENS was conceptualized, and all of their research was probably the most relevent research that could be located towards SENS. Is it easier to double the number and/or progress of people who presented at SENS this year? Or is it easier to create new "SENS" reaearchers?
These questions aren't perfect, but they're a good start for a layman.