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

May 14, 2023 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 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 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

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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Is Liz Parrish the world’s most genetically modified person? Why it might not be such a good thing

May 8, 2024 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 10 Comments

Some recent claims had me wondering whether Liz Parrish is the world’s most genetically modified person. She and her firm BioViva are making that claim. It’s an important question but maybe not for the reason many of us first might think. This is not really about one person. Instead, this is a weighty question because

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Skepticism on the Bryan Johnson anti-aging extravaganza

January 31, 2023 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 1 Comment

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 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 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

October 15, 2015 / Professor Paul Knoepfler, Ph.D. / 20 Comments

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 involving a firm called BioViva and its leader Liz Parrish. Liz Parrish and BioViva The owner of a small biotech called BioViva, Liz Parrish, reportedly traveled

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