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The Feds Are Officially Cracking Down on Basement Biohackers (gizmodo.com)

Posted by msmash on from the steering-clear dept.

Kristen Brown, reporting for Gizmodo: The Food and Drug Agency has issued a stern warning to anyone who might be crazy enough to undertake gene therapy in the do-it-yourself fashion. Definitely don't do this at home, a statement released on Tuesday implies. And if you do, we'll throw every law we can at you. The FDA's deterrent comes on the heels of a brazen DIY gene therapy experiment, in which a 27-year-old software engineer injected himself with an unprove gene therapy for HIV designed by three biohacker friends. The first injection was streamed live on Facebook in October, and went viral after it was covered by Gizmodo. "You can't stop it, you can't regulate these things," patient zero, Tristan Roberts, told Gizmodo at the time. Apparently the FDA begs to differ.

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  1. Alternative Medicine by Osgeld · · Score: 4, Funny

    Worked for Steve Jobs!

    1. Re:Alternative Medicine by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, is he still sick? Is he?

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    2. Re:Alternative Medicine by Mal-2 · · Score: 5, Funny

      He'll be back in a few years. He's spending a decade dead for tax purposes.

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  2. Re:Actually... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Homebrew gene therapies might cause long term genetic harm, pass on to children, polluting the gene pool. People will start demanding genetic testing of potential mates prior to breeding. Economic class divisions will be punctuated by genetic class divisions, with teeming masses of mutants laboring under the control of a group of a genetically-elite super-species.

    In short, it will be fucking awesome!