biohacking
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This Rogue Company Wants People To Inject Themselves With Untested Drugs
Aaron Traywick paced the stage like a caged lion. In a few minutes, he would drop trou in front of an audience and thrust a needle containing a highly experimental herpes treatment into his left thigh. For now, though, he stood alone in the spotlight, his slight frame cast in harsh silhouette and face fixed…
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Why Basement Biohackers Might Need To Start Fearing The FDA
Last week, the Food and Drug Administration issued a stern warning to biohackers in America: Undertaking DIY gene therapy, it warned, is risky and selling the supplies to do it is flat-out against the law.
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A DIY Pharmaceutical Revolution Is Coming, If It Doesn’t Kill Us First
As Mixael Laufer tells it, the vision came to him in El Salvador. Laufer was visiting Central America as a human rights envoy, touring a tiny, rural mountain town with the Marin County Peace and Justice Coalition. When he arrived at the town’s medical clinic, it had just run out of birth control.
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This Silicon Chip Will Monitor Your Brain And Dissolve In Your Body
Well folks, we’ve finally arrived at the long-anticipated future of brain-implantable chips. How many hundreds of science fiction novels have led us to this moment? No matter: the chips are here, and we’re getting a good look at ’em today thanks to a study just out in Nature.