{"id":71483,"date":"2017-08-02T11:23:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T18:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/we-should-be-optimistic-but-not-complacent-about-progress"},"modified":"2017-08-04T10:49:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T17:49:32","slug":"we-should-be-optimistic-but-not-complacent-about-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/we-should-be-optimistic-but-not-complacent-about-progress","title":{"rendered":"We Should Be Optimistic But Not Complacent About Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-should-be-optimistic-but-not-complacent-about-progress.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the last year or so we have seen remarkable progress with a number of interventions that target the aging processes to prevent and treat age-related diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Senescent cell clearance has enjoyed lots of media attention and is entering human clinical trials later this year with <a href=\"http:\/\/unitybiotechnology.com\/\">Unity Biotechnology<\/a>. We have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/cure-age-related-blindness\/\">LysoClear<\/a> from Ichor Therapeutics moving towards the clinic with a therapy based on the LysoSENS approach advocated for by the SENS Research Foundation, which seeks to treat age-related blindness caused by the accumulation of waste products in the retina cells of patients. Dr. David Sinclair is moving into human trials this year with a therapy aimed at repairing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/dna-repair\/\">DNA damage<\/a>, one of the main reasons we are thought to age.<\/p>\n<p>We have had amazing progress in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/new-cancer-vaccine\/\">immunotherapy<\/a>, where the immune system is taught to detect cancer and other diseases far more efficiently. For instance, immunotherapy has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/immunotherapy\/\">used<\/a> to allow the immune system spot cancer that uses the same \u201cDo not eat me\u201d signals that healthy cells use to avoid destruction.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/optimistic-but-not-complacent\/\">http:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/optimistic-but-not-complacent\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last year or so we have seen remarkable progress with a number of interventions that target the aging processes to prevent and treat age-related diseases. Senescent cell clearance has enjoyed lots of media attention and is entering human clinical trials later this year with Unity Biotechnology. We have LysoClear from Ichor Therapeutics moving [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71688,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71483\/revisions\/71688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}