Interesting times for billionaire vampires

We are living in "interesting times" like the ancient curse.

Some of the things going on recently include:

• What could possibly go wrong with AI actively courted for military applications like The Terminator and Matrix,
• A fat blonde man-child in the white-house like President Booth of Judge Dredd fame, and of course
• Rich vampires preying on their own children to remain young

But thankfully for all those anaemic kids, scientists from Matter.bio - protecting the genome¹ are coming to the rescue.

From what I can tell, their argument is that damage to cells through environmental factors and the stuff we eat, inhale (microplastics, cigarette smoke, etc) are the reason we age then die. By comparison, long-lived animals die a lot later.

These people are experts in their field. They'd have to be. But I have to ask a dumb question: Isn't mutation is how every species on the planet has evolved to become what they are today?

Or as Charles Xavier puts it at the beginning of the first X-Men movie way back in 2000:

"...Mutation: it is the key to our evolution. It is how we have evolved from a single-celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, and normally taking thousands and thousands of years..."

But one thing seems certain given the interesting times we live in. Sooner or later these scientists will be buried in lawyers from a certain entertainment juggernaut².