Редактирование: BioViva

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'''BioViva''' is a Seattle based [[biotechnology|biotech]] company working on treatments to slow the [[Senescence|ageing process]] in humans.

== History ==
In September 2015, CEO [[Liz Parrish]] flew to Colombia to receive two experimental gene therapies. One was a myostatin inhibitor, a drug that is being tested as a treatment for muscle loss. The other was a telomerase [[gene therapy]], the drug that BioViva claims has reversed her cells' biological age, by lengthening parts of her genetic material called [[telomere]]s.<ref name="guardian">[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jul/24/elizabeth-parrish-gene-therapy-ageing Can this woman cure ageing with gene therapy?]</ref>

If early data is accurate, it is the world's first successful example of telomere lengthening via gene therapy in a human individual.<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3559947/Could-gene-therapy-help-live-forever-CEO-controversial-firm-claims-successfully-carried-anti-ageing-treatment-herself.html Could gene therapy help you live forever? CEO of controversial firm claims she has successfully carried out first anti-ageing treatment - on herself]</ref>

The organisation is owned by umbrella company [[BioTrove Investments]].

== Controversy ==
The treatment as well as the [[self-experimentation]] is highly controversial. Because the necessary pre-clinical work to progress to human studies, the US [[Food and Drug Administration]] did not authorise Parrish's experiment, requiring her to travel for treatment.

Timothy Caulfield, professor in the Faculty of Law and the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta characterising BioViva's work as '[[Pseudo-science]]' and lacking scientific rigour. George M Martin, professor of pathology at the University of Washington had agreed to be an adviser to the company but resigned on hearing about the self-experiment.<ref name="guardian" />

== External links ==
* [http://bioviva-science.com/ bioviva-science.com]
* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaBq8hEExcUN6mtKMEuBvMQ YouTube channel]
* {{Wikipedia|BioViva}}
* {{twitter|BiovivaUsa}}
{{facebook page|https://www.facebook.com/BiovivaSciences/}}

== References ==
[[Category:Transhumanist organisations]]
[[Category:American organisations]]
[[Category:YouTube]]