Talk:Geron Corporation

Archived
The talk page was being used to discuss issues related to the company and not to the article. This is not what the talk page is for, and thus it has been archived. Please do not alter the archive. Keep all discussion relevant to improving the article and not on discussing the company. Nouse4aname (talk) 10:27, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Censorship of Geron Corp. page
The Geron Corp. page is about Geron Corp.. The discussion should be about Geron Corp. too. Why does the discussion page have to be about a hyped company prospectus, rather than about the facts of the matter? The censorship needs a reality check. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.37.56.242 (talk) 08:31, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Please read WP:TP. "Article talk pages are provided for discussion of the content of articles" and "Talk pages should not be used by editors as platforms for their personal views." Talk pages are there for discussing improvements to the article, not a general discussion of the subject. This is not censorship, it is restoring the talk page to it's intended function. Nouse4aname (talk) 08:50, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

That's the point. The content of the article page gives the impression that Geron Corp. discovered, or invented, the things discussed. It did not.

If rules were strict rules we'd never have any progress, and would not have made it out of the stone-age, or at least be doffing our caps still.

Why does Wikipedia feel the need to uphold the status quo? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.183.131.170 (talk) 17:54, 10 October 2008 (UTC) In California the people who run the company were considered outstandingly average. The person who started the company, Michael West, is considered a bully with a psychiatric problem. He believes that he can live forever. That would be enough to section him under the 1983 Mental Health Act in the U.K. as there is no religious or cultural background that would make this a normal thought for him.

Referring to telomerase activation products
Someone added a reference to TAsciences.com, which is arguably appropriate, since it's verifiable that Geron granted a license to that company for the TA-65 compound, although I wonder if there might be a commercial motivation. Then someone added a reference to RevGenetics.com. The connection to the subject of the article is much more tenuous, since RevGenetics's own press release doesn't claim any connection between its natural product and Geron's research, and neither do any third-party published sources I can find. Independent of what I may think of each of the products, it's hard to justify any mention of RevGenetics on the Geron page, while the TAsciences link is debatable. 71.139.177.112 (talk) 01:42, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

"gerons" in Embassytown by China Miéville
I wanted to share this amusing pop culture reference to the Geron Corporation. I encountered this sentence in Embassytown by China Miéville: "On that journey to Embassytown, Scile had had his sopor amended, spiked with gerons so he would age while under. It's an affecting gesture, to ensure that the sleep of travel doesn't keep you young while your working partner grows older." i.e. aging during suspended animation, more or less. I was trying to figure out what on Earth a geron was, as I'm in the habit of looking up the 200 words per Miéville novel that are new to me or that I've contextually marginalized, and came to this page. I'm not sure if it's worth adding a Pop Culture reference section for this (opinions?), but I thought it might be amusing to those who maintain the page. k. da-ma-te (talk) 04:23, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Stem cell divestiture
As of Jan 7th, Geron divested itself of stem cell research assets- http://ir.geron.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=67323&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1771560

This is both a negitive for stem cell technology, as the aquiring company Biotime has had financial difficulties, and a positive as Biotime now says "Our core technologies center on novel stem cells..."

Biotime does not have a Wikipedia page, although its CEO does- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._West — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.151.108.107 (talk) 21:44, 20 May 2013 (UTC)

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