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Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy

posted by Fnord666 on Monday December 04 2017, @11:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the what-could-possibly-go-wrong dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

"Cease & Desist" has not worked:

Despite a warning from the federal government about do-it-yourself gene therapy, two companies say they'll continue offering DNA-altering materials to the public.

The companies, The Odin and Ascendance Biomedical, both recently posted videos online of people self-administering DNA molecules their labs had produced.

Following wide distribution of the videos, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week issued a harshly worded statement cautioning consumers against DIY gene-therapy kits and calling their sale illegal. "The sale of these products is against the law. FDA is concerned about the safety risks involved," the agency said.

Does the Executive Branch want the market to decide, or not?

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  • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Monday December 04 2017, @02:20PM (1 child)

    by JNCF (4317) on Monday December 04 2017, @02:20PM (#605038) Journal

    The real question when you're selling to the general population of lifters is if a dose X works what happens when dumb lifters take one hundred times X, because the dumb ones do that with everything else they can consume.

    Evolution is bloody, and ever the Twain shall quethe: "censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."

    Also you give lifters a nice ergonomically and scientifically and engineering "safe" machine to lift with and roughly 95% of lifters will be "no brah I'm not using a machine I need max gainz" and then you tell them how to do it without destroying their body so again they do the opposite and round their back while lifting and then make the whole hobby look stupid because there they are in the ER (again).

    Your "safe" machine doesn't require you to actually learn how to move your body in non-harmful ways while lifting heavy objects. This is okay if you just want to look cool, but if you want to gain useful strength you should know how to use it (I'm not assuming you don't).

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 04 2017, @03:39PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 04 2017, @03:39PM (#605088)

    Machines also generally are isolation-type exercises, and don't build the smaller muscles that provide stability and balance, and don't put as much pressure on bones and tendons, which can lead to issues when your muscles are disproportionately stronger than the joints and bones they're anchored to.