{"id":74688,"date":"2017-12-25T01:42:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T09:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/biotech-boss-backing-gene-therapy-to-solve-ageing-crisis-seeks-injection-of-urgency-but-scientists-preach-patience"},"modified":"2018-01-02T13:13:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T21:13:54","slug":"biotech-boss-backing-gene-therapy-to-solve-ageing-crisis-seeks-injection-of-urgency-but-scientists-preach-patience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/biotech-boss-backing-gene-therapy-to-solve-ageing-crisis-seeks-injection-of-urgency-but-scientists-preach-patience","title":{"rendered":"Biotech boss backing gene therapy to solve ageing crisis seeks injection of urgency, but scientists preach patience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biotech-boss-backing-gene-therapy-to-solve-ageing-crisis-seeks-injection-of-urgency-but-scientists-preach-patience.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 \u2013 but she has irked the science community in the process.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Experimenting on herself didn\u2019t 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 \u2018planet\u2019s biggest killer\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-beauty\/article\/2125406\/biotech-boss-backing-gene-therapy-solve-ageing-crisis-seeks\">http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-beauty\/article\/2125406\/...isis-seeks<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2013 but she has irked the science community in the process. Experimenting on herself didn\u2019t go down well with scientists, but Elizabeth Parrish is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74688","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74891,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74688\/revisions\/74891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}