Talk:William H. Andrews (biologist)

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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 Wikipedia: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)