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Weekly reads: BioViva & life-extension clinic, RMATs, universal cells

May 14, 2023 / By / 2 Comments
BioViva CEO Liz Parrish in YouTube video.

I’ve written before about Liz Parrish and her life-extension firm BioViva. Now they appear to have connections with another entity called Integrated Health Systems or IHS, according to a new Wired article. Some of what is going on with IHS and maybe BioViva in Mexico seems extremely risky to me. BioViva, Parrish, and Integrated Health Systems The …

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Weekly reads: life extension & BioViva, clinics & anti-vax, axolotls, systemic CRISPR

July 4, 2021 / By / 1 Comment
BioViva CEO Liz Parrish in YouTube video.

Let’s start off today’s recommended reads with the topic of life extension. No controversy there, right? This comes to mind because of a new preprint from BioViva, Liz Parrish, and George Church. I’m hoping to cover this on our Stem Cell Channel on YouTube.  Gene therapy and life extension research The preprint is entitled, “New …

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Skepticism on the Bryan Johnson anti-aging extravaganza

July 9, 2023 / By / 1 Comment
Oliver Zolman, Bryan Johnson

Near-billionaire Bryan Johnson apparently does not like getting old and he’s trying to do something transformative about it. He and his team are experimenting in a big way.  As a 55-year-old myself, I can’t blame him for wanting to fight aging in general. However, his anti-aging project includes some extreme stuff. Will some in the …

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Clinics turning to potentially dangerous intranasal stem cell delivery

August 3, 2021 / By / 8 Comments
Intranasal stem cells trial map from Clinicaltrials.gov

Because of blogging here on The Niche and people giving me tips I often can see trends before they fully surface and a troubling new one is intranasal stem cell delivery by unproven clinics. Over the past year I have heard of many clinics now offering this approach. I’ve seen this in marketing and heard …

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Claim of Liz Parrish DIY gene therapy linked to unlicensed stem cell clinic

November 11, 2021 / By / 20 Comments
Elizabeth-Parrish

In a strange, but fascinating tale recounted by Antonio Regalado in an article over at MIT Tech Review, we hear the first claim of a do-it-yourself (DIY) gene therapy. The owner of a small biotech called BioViva, Liz Parrish, reportedly traveled from her home in Seattle to get an unapproved, experimental gene therapy in another …

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