This sounds encouraging. What are the next steps when developing anti-aging treatments for things like arthritis etc? It sounds like this is the very beginning of the process, what now? When can I expect this in treatment form for the inevitable arthritis that will malign my hands as it has generations of my family members? Also, will other countries with less bureaucracy jump on this and have the ability to surpass us?
NF-κB is a pretty high-level signaling molecule, so I would be surprised if it were as simple as blocking it in humans. There's a lot of things that mice don't have to worry about that we do, and it likely that a drug like this would mess you up in some unanticipated way. Still, the next step would be moving this to primates. One problem, is that less bureaucracy often comes with shoddier research. It's a shame, but it's downright difficult not to be very skeptical of everything coming out of China.