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Dec 25, 2017

Biotech boss backing gene therapy to solve ageing crisis seeks injection of urgency, but scientists preach patience

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Elizabeth Parrish is a proponent of controversial ideas. Rankled by barriers to trials on potential life-enhancing treatments, she used herself as a guinea pig and says the results have borne fruit – but she has irked the science community in the process.


Experimenting on herself didn’t go down well with scientists, but Elizabeth Parrish is convinced gene therapy can increase the length and quality of our lives, and wants early approval for treatments to stem ‘planet’s biggest killer’.

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