Article: Why I injected myself with an untested gene therapy (BBC news about biohacking)

Don't try this at home:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41990981

 

Teaser quote if anybody wants to figure if it's worth clicking through

 

At first read, I thought Chihuahua cells were being implanted in the kid or the Chihuahua was getting injected.

I probably should have put this in the Classic ME Moments or Misheard/Misread forum, but I couldn’t be bothered.

 

"A Chihuahua mix wearing an inflatable recovery collar snored beside him."

My favourite part so far.

 

He's not the only one:

http://www.iflscience.com/health-an...-became-the-first-person-to-edit-his-own-dna/

 

I'm looking for the M.E. Moments thread on PR, or here, and can't find it anywhere. Is it my brain or is it gone?
Miss it.

 

I am too lazy to figure out what untested gene therapies I would like to have myself injected with(obviously one that ends my CFS/ME).Can I also improve my appearance?get thin(ner)?make wrinkles go away?It wasn't that hard to come up with ideas.

 

I'd quite like the untested gene therapy shown at the beginning of prometheus, the one that not only unravels and rewrites my DNA but also destroys an entire planetary ecosystem.

I mean yes it looks like it may smart a bit, but the whole kill everything else on the planet thing - take that evolution, maybe next time you could evolve a plan that didn't require my life to be completely f'd up.

Anthropomorphism, gotta love it, it's just such a useful thing if insane motivation is required, such a good tool for justifying hatred in an indifferent universe

 

Interesting article.

From a scientific view: Why should something change in one's genome/mtRNA or so when a small amount of DNA is injected once? Would the reapeated injection of DNA change the outcome?