• A celebrity biohacker who sells DIY gene-editing kits is under investigation
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https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/5/19/18629771/biohacking-josiah-zayner-genetic-engineering-crispr In 2017, Josiah Zayner injected himself with the gene-editing technology CRISPR at a biotech conference, live-streaming the experiment. 
So have any of these gene editing biohackers actually managed to get some results. Like at all, even on like bacteria or something.
Ah yes biohackers the next stage of pseudoscience. Whats sad is these people are so caught up in their own ego they'd unironically bring out the phrenology calipers to measure whatever is still working in their brain. the only "bio hacking" is what licensed medical professionals and cybernetic engineers do. Not some fucko who bought a crispr kit off of amazon.
I thought I remembered having a thread about this a year ago, but that was some other guy who died after injecting homebrewed anti-aids juice or something.
CRISPR has been tested on animals a fair bit and does work. Either way, you obviously need to know what you're doing and this guy is an idiot.
Yeah we're still not at a point in time where the term "bio hacking" doesn't sound stupid.
Soulja boy at it again!
Should've injected himself with cum instead
Yeye, but have any of these DYI amateur biohackers actually recorded any results from their CRISPR experiments.
I can't imagine any meaningful results coming from unblinded experiments with a sample size of one and little to no quality control.
I'm bought a kit of off amazon and now my vision is augmented.
Yea, watch your mouth unironic anti-science turd until certain Governments like China or US will be interested this biotechnological movement in the near-future by creating their own genetically modified volunteers. Sure, but for the latter, I saw you changed the word 'cybernetic' to prosthetic, so just to hide your retarded cyborg hypocritical fantasy. Yes, and I'm the same guy who post it. That you and anti-Biohacking folk's problem, while I see it for now is just fine.
You can see it as fine all you want but there is no reasoning that this is fine.
Yeah, getting alleged gene editing chemicals from some random dude sounds like a great idea
Crispr is still arguably unsafe for use on mammals. Simply put, our cells have mekanisms to prevent dna altercations to avoid cancer. For crispr to work currently, these preventative measures must be disabled which then leads to a higher risk of cancer. Of course the bleeding edge of crispr research is finding a way around that problem, as well as reducing the error rate. That being said, crispr really should not be used on humans directly in its current state and anyone who does so is an idiot. Personally, i am a big supporter of crispr research, but it must be kept to regulated labs
Sure, you people worrying about their health safety. But as long their probably 'safe' genetically modified 'techniques' aren't designed that too fatal. Then it still inspire several people like me to become professional geneticists and aforementioned Biohackers in Medical, Biotechnological, and Life Science fields in the future, with or without getting a job in the official field.
This isn't proper science at all.
I'm on about how it sounds you melon, not what it is actually means.
The biohackers of today, aside from practicing doctors, will never be the "professionals" of the future. These are essentially young adults/kids with a portion of understanding about a topic. They're not practicing "Science", they're not even doing things using the "Scientific Method" most often. Fucking Mark Rober is more scientific than these idiots.
Are you for or against this 'biohacker' guy? I can't tell if your post is ironic or not.
He's for the biohacker, and is apparently very angry at people who think that things like the scientific method, blinded experimentation, and not experimenting on oneself like a cartoon mad-doctor are important for getting results that are actually useful.
Without these, we'd literally still be 400 years or more back.
I can’t wait to inject something into me to make my balls bioluminescent
And it's not like he cares about curing diseases it anything, he just wants to edit his genes so he can become a goat furry IRL.
pharamaceutical companies scared that biohacking becomes more accessible and people start accidentally curing diseases with experimental lentivirus injections
More like accidentally giving themselves weird infections and just dying in obscurity for little reason or purpose
I mean a vast majority of those activities are provably beneficial to your mind and body. I've done hot sauna meditation and the release you get internally is all but placebo
I mean, anyone could pick up an organic chemistry book and make a random molecule (or even easier, just order something from China or India) and inject it into themselves. This hasn't collapsed the pharmaceutical industry yet, as far as I know.
Yeah you're right, cryotherapy (Snakeoil) and neurofeedback (likely a placebo) stood out to me. And that IR sauna being used to "escape stress from electromagnetic transmission" seems uh, kinda silly.
But the placebo effect IS provable. This is not a dig an hot sauna meditation is particular but a remark on how hard it is to show a causal relationship for things that are touted to heal us.
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