Talk:William H. Andrews (biologist)

Andrews a paying customer of whose?
In the section "Sierra Sciences (1999–present)" appear these sentence: "During this time frame, Geron Corporation discovered TA-65, a small-molecule telomerase activator derived from Astragalus membranaceus. Sierra Sciences tested its efficacy,[8] and shortly thereafter, Andrews became the first paying customer to take the supplement.[2]"

This suggests that Andrews became a customer of either Sierra Sciences (his own company), or of Geron. Yet reference [2] says:

"[in 2008] Patton's TA Sciences test-launched its TA-65 supplement with 100 clients, each willing to pay $25,000 a year to be anti-aging guinea pigs. Paying patient number one: Bill Andrews."

But somehow TA Sciences isn't mentioned anywhere in this Wikipedia article. Perhaps someone could clear up how all these participants relate to each other? Gwideman (talk) 22:17, 31 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure how to source it, but the answer to your question is that Geron discovered the molecule and licensed it to TA Sciences to sell. 75.142.251.142 (talk) 20:09, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

Undisclosed paid tag
I have added an undisclosed paid tag to this article because of extensive editing by a UPE sockfarm, please see Sockpuppet investigations/125BOP for evidence. The article will need a thorough review ensuring due weight, neutral language, and use of reliable sources before the tag is removed. --Blablubbs (talk) 11:28, 20 July 2021 (UTC)


 * As far as I can tell, there are no extant contribution by User:125BOP. I have removed the tag. KarakasaObake (talk) 06:55, 22 April 2022 (UTC)