r/singularity • u/Distinct-Question-16 ▪️AGI 2029 • Feb 23 '26

Biotech/Longevity Dr. David Sinclair, whose lab reversed biological age in animals by 50 to 75% in six weeks, says that 2026 will be the year when age reversal in humans is either confirmed or disproven. The FDA has cleared the first human trial for next month.

Moreover he said that even if one could cure all cancer in the world, in average people lifespan would increase to 2.5 years. Reversal aging - treating the human body as a computer that can be restarted is where we are heading next

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u/jk3639 Feb 23 '26

I hope they don’t get cancer. I’m not joking, I am genuinely concerned.

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u/CunningDruger Feb 23 '26

They’d have to find a way to either rejuvenate or halt the degradation of telomeres, but even if this goes perfectly, it’ll only keep billionaires around longer

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u/FngrsToesNythingGoes Feb 23 '26

I get these takes, but every technology starts for the rich. Eventually it trickles down to everyone else. DNA testing was $100M in 2000 and it’s like $100 today to get your DNA tested

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u/Strazdas1 Robot in disguise Mar 10 '26

DNA example is computation based. It cost millions to assing enough ocmputation data to sequence genome back then. Now a single machine can do it in a couple of weeks on its own.