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Despite its promising potential, longevity science suffers from underfunding. Steele highlights that US government funding amounts to just over $1 per American, which is negligible considering the scale of the problem, given that aging accounts for roughly 85% of deaths.
To truly accelerate progress, he advocates for a big, coordinated project akin to the Human Genome Project—a massive data collection and computational modeling effort. By measuring gene expression, protein changes, and cellular transformations across populations, researchers can develop systems biology models of aging.