A Growing Interest in the Treatment of Aging as a Medical Condition

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/02/a-growing-interest-in-the-treatment-of-aging-as-a-medical-condition/

There is a growing interest in the treatment of aging as a medical condition, targeting mechanisms that cause aging or that are involved in the pathologies of aging. In the research community this manifests as increased funding, a greater output of potential therapies, more conferences, and more high level reviews of the state of the field, such as the paper noted here. An uptick in reviews in any part of the life siences might be taken as a sign that a field is attracting new participants. On the one hand more researchers want to learn about the state of the science because they are hearing more discussion of the field in their communities, while on the other hand more researchers recently learned enough as a result of participation to consider writing a review for the next set of newcomers.

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