Dr. Michael D. West is the P.T. Barnum of biotechnology. He has written that he wants to live forever. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} Commonly thought to be a bullying nutter in the biotech community. Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891), American showman who is best remembered for his entertaining hoaxes and for founding the circus that eventually became Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. ...

He is CEO of BioTime, Inc., of Emeryville, California, a company engaged in stem cell research and development, development of low temperature medicine (ice cold suspended animation technologies), and development of artificial blood plasma solutions for the treatment for blood loss due to trauma and elective surgery.

He was Chairman of the Board, Chief Scientific Officer, and former CEO of Advanced Cell Technology Corporation, which specializes in stem cell research. Human cloning is supposed to be band, if anyone cared why is this web page blank!!!!! you mean banned--^ ... Mouse embryonic stem cells with fluorescent marker. ...

Dr. West also founded Geron Corporation, a biotechnology company based in Menlo Park, California, and served as its Director and Senior Executive Officer from 1990 to 1998. The company was incorporated in 1990 and began doing business in 1992. Geron Corporation focuses on creating drugs based on telomere and stem cell research^[5]. Geron Corporation is a biotechnology company founded by Dr. Michael West based in Menlo Park, California. ... Menlo Park is a city in San Mateo County, California in the United States of America. ... A telomere is a region of highly repetitive DNA at the end of a chromosome that functions as a disposable buffer. ... Mouse embryonic stem cells with fluorescent marker. ...

Dr. West's 2003 book The Immortal Cell (ISBN 0-385-50928-6) tells the story of his religious, business and scientific struggles with the problem of human aging. In biology, senescence is the combination of processes of deterioration which follow the period of development of an organism. ...

West has been featured in numerous news media reports concerning somatic cell nuclear transfer technology, and has testified before the U.S. Congress on this subject. In genetics and developmental biology, somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) is a laboratory technique for creating an ovum with a donor nucleus (see process below) . It can be used in embryonic stem cell research, or in regenerative medicine where it is sometimes referred to as therapeutic cloning. ...

See also

• Gerontology

Gerontology is the study of aging. ...

External links

• Dr. West's webpage
• Dr. West's Biography
• Advanced Cell Technology
• Video: The Stem Cell ControversyJanuary 18, 2006, Woodrow Wilson Center event featuring Robin Cook (novelist), William B. Hurlbut, and Michael D. West
• The Prospects of Human Life Extension recorded November 2004 at the Long Now Foundation
• Therapeutic Cloning Under Fire: An Interview with Michael D. West, PhD, cover story, Life Extension Magazine, March 2002
• Interview of Michael West on new breakthroughs in anti-aging cloning research, by Life Extension Magazine, March 18, 2000

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (or Wilson Center) (located in Washington, D.C.) is a United States Presidential Memorial that was established as part of the Smithsonian Institution by act of Congress in 1968. ... Robin Cook (born May 4, 1940 in New York) is an American doctor/novelist who writes about medicine and topics affecting public health. ... William B. Hurlbut is a physician and Consulting Professor in the Neuroscience Institute at Stanford, Stanford University Medical Center. ...

References

1. ^ "The Hunt For The Youth Pill From cell-immortalizing drugs to cloned organs, biotech finds new ways to fight against time's toll", CNNMoney.com, October 11, 1999. 
2. ^ "The Recycled Generation: Stem-cell research holds the promise of an endless supply of new body parts, but it's bogged down in abortion politics and corporate rivalries, and shadowed by the possibility that the result might not be so great after all", New York Times, January 30, 2000. 
3. ^ "The First Clone: Scientists have finally cloned a human embryo. The breakthrough promises cures for terrible diseases", U.S. News & World Report, November 25, 2001. 
4. ^ "Advanced Cell Technology Catapults Itself Into The Big League", Equities Magazine, July 2007. 
5. ^ http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=18708320&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=6