Dear #GeneTherapy twitter, thank you for your had work enabling cures for diseases of #Aging. What's that, you aren't working on that at all? Oh but you are, and @Nicole_Paulk and I wrote an oped to explain why: cellandgene.com/doc/why-comple…
#Aging is a set of biological mechanisms that cause all your tissues to decline in distinct ways, and in doing so lose physiological coherence. This process is the main risk factor for most US deaths (incl. #COVID19).
The systemic nature of #Aging means that old patients are usually #Comorbid, suffering from more than one disease. Our best remedy right now is often a cocktail of drugs, whose side effects interfere with each other and further strain other organs.
#GeneTherapy gives us the #Precision to treat distinct dysfunctions in each tissue, treating each disease without aggravating others. This will finally enable a paradigm of treating, not managing, the ailments of old age.
So thank you to the whole #GeneTherapy field for developing the technology that enables #GeneTherapyForAging.
To people at companies like @SangamoTx & @SanofiGenzyme, working on complex diseases like #Parkinsons, and to early #Aging efforts @eskamoah @geochurch @celinehalioua
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