{"id":220136,"date":"2025-08-14T15:35:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/genomics-pioneer-george-church-earns-first-retraction-for-anti-aging-gene-therapy-paper"},"modified":"2025-08-14T15:35:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:35:01","slug":"genomics-pioneer-george-church-earns-first-retraction-for-anti-aging-gene-therapy-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/genomics-pioneer-george-church-earns-first-retraction-for-anti-aging-gene-therapy-paper","title":{"rendered":"Genomics pioneer George Church earns first retraction for anti-aging gene therapy paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genomics-pioneer-george-church-earns-first-retraction-for-anti-aging-gene-therapy-paper.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A paper coauthored by geneticist George Church has been retracted following an internal review at a university where several coauthors are based.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2121499119\">The article<\/a> appeared in the <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em> in 2022. The work supports an anti-aging gene therapy developed by BioViva, a company for which Church serves as an adviser. The paper\u2019s authors claim cytomegalovirus (CMV) can be a gene therapy vector for a treatment for \u201caging-associated decline\u201d that can be inhaled or injected monthly.<\/p>\n<p>The work has been cited 41 times, two of which are citations from corrections to the article, according to Clarivate\u2019s Web of Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A paper coauthored by geneticist George Church has been retracted following an internal review at a university where several coauthors are based. The article appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022. The work supports an anti-aging gene therapy developed by BioViva, a company for which Church serves as an adviser. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}