Medicine & Longevity
Healthy longevity and planetary ecosystem stewardship
How can people live healthier lives?
Start with the big picture. Open the sections below to see the evidence and future goals.
Steps toward the future
Explore the milestone ladder
- doneCooperativeSmallpox eradicated1980LEVEL 2
- doneCooperativeFirst FDA-approved CRISPR therapy (Casgevy, sickle cell disease)2023LEVEL 2
- doneCooperativePersonalized mRNA cancer vaccine passes Phase 3Aug 2026 (melanoma)LEVEL 2
- nextCooperativeEradicate wild polio (36 reported cases in 2026)Target not achieved · report: 23 Sep 2026LEVEL 2
- plannedCooperativeHealthy life expectancy passes 70 worldwideLEVEL 3
- plannedCooperativeMajority of cancers curable or chronic-managedLEVEL 3
- farCooperativeScalable HIV cure; Alzheimer's reversalLEVEL 4
- farCooperativeComprehensive portable diagnosticsLEVEL 4
- farGalacticLife expectancy above 100LEVEL 4
- farGalacticA self-regulating planetary ecosystemLEVEL 4
Lifelong diseases & gene therapy
New evidence on Crohn’s, Parkinson’s, diabetes and inherited disease, with study results, safety and approval limits.
Open the research tracker ↗Human dimensions
Related measures within Humanity.
Action path
This near-term path is shared with the corresponding Cooperative track.
Level 2: polio eradicated; cancer survival ≥ 85%; mRNA cancer vaccines approved
Explore the possible steps
Possible steps
- mRNA cancer vaccine files on the Phase 3 win (approval plausible 2027)
- Cell therapy goes in-vivo; cost falls an order of magnitude
- Base editing extends from sickle cell to dozens of monogenic diseases
- First aging trials report; survival crosses 85% for common cancers
Access and cost, not science — weight survival, not approvals
If pricing limits cell and gene therapy to thousands of patients, the score rises through early detection (multi-cancer blood tests)
What to watch
CAR-T list price; gene-editing therapies approved; wild polio cases per year
Related snapshot measures
These are the available measures in the supplied dataset; they may be proxies for the leading indicators above.
Polio's last 29 cases sit in two conflict zones: the final rung is a Peace problem.
A scenario from the supplied handoff, not a prediction or professional advice.
New here? What the labels mean
Reported fact
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Model or score
A way to compare things using chosen rules. Different rules can give different scores.
Future goal or scenario
Something we hope to achieve, or imagine might happen. It is not a measured fact.
- Milestone
- An important step toward a goal.
- Indicator
- A measurement that helps us understand something.
- Dependency
- Something that may need help from something else.
- Biodiversity
- The variety of living things.
- GW
- Gigawatts: a unit of power. Capacity is what equipment can produce at its rated output.