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

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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Tristan Roberts' post-injection test results

[tgibson]

Here's an article that has a few paragraphs of his followup tests in the weeks following the injection.

He opened the documents sent from the lab and frowned slightly as he read. Then he laughed.
"Alright, so - yeah, this was not what we were hoping for."

According to the test results, Roberts' viral load rose from 28,800 on week two to 36,401 on week three - still low levels, but not the desired results. His count of CD4 helper T-cells - the immune system cell that HIV attacks - was higher than he'd ever seen it, but there was no way to know what that meant.

"More data is necessary," Traywick chimed in from off-camera. Then he sat down next to Roberts, joking: "We didn't kill you."

Re:Circumstances

[gnick]

Quack: Just take these pills and you'll be fine.

Nobody would be stupid enough to believe that pills are going to cure their cancer. That requires magnets and crystals. A little pricey if you want them charged and balanced to conform to your chakra, but cheaper than chemo. Prayer is cheaper, but a proper faith healer might want a donation.