I guess that you all agree to the claim that we have very little knowledge of the mitochondria and mtDNA dynamics and that this is a serious problem if one is to make the puzzle of aging interactions complete.
Well, my opinion is this, that is most likely correct. But we've got the necessary data/information to solve this, right in front of us. We've got genomes, proteomes, metabolomes(human & draft) outhere. Even genomes from various species, and even distributed protein folding, and specialized supercomputers for such tasks. The problem is the freaking raw amount of data, the tedious tools we've been left with(probably those programmers lacked some passion/drive/motivation or something, dunnoh),we need to get/convince skilled and passionate people to deal with the various aspects of the problems at hand, and I think it's happening too, but as always collaboration is key and we've to find a way to make that work. The solution to the aging problem must not be something that is patented, nor must the means to reach it or enable it nor the know-how, it must be something for the people, for everyone from the poorest to the richest, from the infamous to the famous. Words despite being finite can convey the infinite(don't ask me how...), they are the key, communication. From funding to interface design, to data gathering to sharing, it's something that has to be done together. Groups of passionate individuals dividing the work that needs to be done with ever improving tools, ever increasing knowledge, ever increasing numbers, are practically equivalent to a superintelligence, they could actually be considered as such, imho.
Here's a quote from my molecular biology book that I found inspiring
Jacques Loeb in 1906:
Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was
relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The
splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol is no
more the effect of a "vital principle" than the
splitting up of cane sugar by invertase. The
history of this problem is instructive, as it warns
us against considering problems as beyond our
reach because they have not yet found their
solution.