How people get it: Not approved for aging. Studied in animals and small early trials.
Part of Age reversal: gene therapies
The basics
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What it is
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How it's thought to work
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What people use it for
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What the research has found so far
On Gene therapy for aging and aging, PubMed lists 11 trials in people, 16 studies that watched people over time, 352 animal and lab studies. See the counts and searches
Stage 2 because there are 11 published trials and 7 registered trials in people, but no large ones yet.
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Side effects and risks
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Who should be careful, and drug interactions
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What to expect: sessions, results and recovery
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Amounts used in studies
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Roughly what it costs
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Questions to ask your doctor
- Is Gene therapy for aging a sensible option for me, given my health and the medicines I take?
- Could Gene therapy for aging interact with any medicine or supplement I already take?
- What side effects should I watch for, and when should I stop or call you?
- How would we tell whether it is helping, and when should we review it?
This is general information gathered from the sources listed, not medical advice. Talk to your doctor before starting anything new.
What experts say
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What others are writing
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Bryan Johnson is being used as a human guinea pig in unproven tests to reprogram human genes in an island off Honduras ↗
“For its medical trial, Minicircle selected 44 people aged 23 to 89 to be injected with the same dosage of follistatin and then tracked for three months.”
Fortune reports that Bryan Johnson received unproven follistatin gene therapy from Minicircle, a treatment with benefits shown only in mice so far.
Recent research
New studies that mention Gene therapy for aging appear here after the morning update.
Trials
None of the registered trials of Gene therapy for aging is one we have linked as aging-related yet.
ClinicalTrials.gov lists 7 registered trials that mention Gene therapy for aging, for any condition (the count in The science below). Here we show the ones about aging. See them all ↗
The science
Counted from PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov on Oct 17, 2026, using one search for Gene therapy for aging in relation to aging. Each link opens the exact search.
- Randomized trials in people
- 2 search ↗
- Large trials (multicenter or phase 3)
- 0 search ↗
- Phase 3 trials
- 0 search ↗
- Trials in people
- 11 search ↗
- Studies that watched people over time
- 16 search ↗
- Animal and lab studies
- 352 search ↗
- Registered trials
- 7 search ↗
PubMed search used
("gene therapy"[tiab] OR "gene therapies"[tiab]) AND (telomerase[tiab] OR klotho[tiab] OR follistatin[tiab] OR aging[tiab] OR ageing[tiab] OR longevity[tiab] OR lifespan[tiab] OR "life span"[tiab] OR healthspan[tiab] OR "Aging"[mh] OR "Longevity"[mh])
Counts are search results, so they include some records that only mention Gene therapy for aging. How we count
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Longevity Verdict. (n.d.). Gene therapy for aging: Research stage and evidence. Retrieved October 17, 2026, from https://longevityverdict.com/treatments/gene-therapy
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