Anti Aging Gene Treatments – Going To The Dogs

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There’s an interesting article in the UK Telegraph about an American professor of physiology (Lee Sweeney).

It seems Mr. Sweeney has been working on genetically altering the muscles of mice. In fact, creating buffed-up old mice. And now he’s ready to try the new gene anti aging therapy on dogs.

Before the dog lovers get all upset, his gene treatments will only be done on dogs with muscular diseases or old dogs that have lost their mobility. The goal is to help these animals regain their youth with one injection in the liver by giving them greater muscle strength and mobility in their final years.

Of course, it’s only a matter of time until it’s used on humans. Even Sweeney admits that that bulking up on gene therapy is not yet safe enough for humans and would require heavy-duty immune suppression.

But it doesn’t seem to stop the hoards of athletes and even coaches from asking him to provide them with a way to become genetically modified. And in fact, he has accepted a seat on the gene-doping panel of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada), who are funding eight research projects on gene-doping detection in a desperate attempt to stay ahead of the cheats.

Still, Body 2.0 isn’t that far off. Body 2.0 is a new, customizable version of ourselves made possible by the decoding of the human genome understanding of our own genetic makeup.

Some of the possibilities:

• permanently boosting red-blood-cell count (and thus aerobic endurance)

• creating whole-body tans (to ward off skin cancer)

• controlling metabolism and hunger hormones (to prevent obesity)

• spurring hair growth

• mimicking the effects of Viagra (on an on-demand basis).

Researchers are saying that it may be possible in the next two decades to increase the body’s healing power, induce it to regenerate lost limbs or organs, even to slow or halt human aging.

I’m sure this will spur all kinds of ethical debates, but the fact is, it will probably be a much different world in the next 20 years or so due to advances in anti aging gene treatments.

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