The Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) was the original attempt to produce a list of important mechanisms in aging, created in an era in which the aging research community leadership was actively hostile towards the concept of treating aging as a medical condition. A great deal of patient advocacy and hard work was required to create the much more receptive research community that exists today, in which the treatment of aging is accepted as a legitimate goal, and the inflamed discussion has moved on to how exactly one should go about it. In this more receptive environment, SENS was followed by other lists of mechanisms: the Hallmarks of Aging, ech…
Contrasting the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence and the Hallmarks of Aging
The Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) was the original attempt to produce a list of important mechanisms in aging, created in an era in which the aging research community leadership was actively hostile towards the concept of treating aging as a medical condition. A great deal of patient advocacy and hard work was required to create the much more receptive research community that exists today, in which the treatment of aging is accepted as a legitimate goal, and the inflamed discussion has moved on to how exactly one should go about it. In this more receptive environment, SENS was followed by other lists of mechanisms: the Hallmarks of Aging, ech…