Con­tro­ver­sial an­ti-ag­ing sci­en­tist — backed by Har­vard's George Church — makes a fresh round of claims on life ex­ten­sion in new mouse study

Just weeks ago con­tro­ver­sial an­ti-ag­ing re­searcher Eliz­a­beth Par­rish at­tract­ed con­sid­er­able at­ten­tion for a tiny hu­man gene ther­a­py study she claimed was un­der­way in Mex­i­co, test­ing a new ap­proach to age-re­lat­ed de­men­tia. Now the biotech ex­ec is back in the spot­light, with cel­e­brat­ed Har­vard sci­en­tif­ic ad­vi­sor George Church by her side, post­ing a mouse study that stakes a claim to a re­mark­able ex­ten­sion of an­i­mals’ life spans us­ing an “in­tranasal and in­jectable” gene ther­a­py.

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