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"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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In Tulsa, Oklahoma, it is against the law to open a soda bottle without
the supervision of a licensed engineer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 04 2017, @03:50PM (1 child)
It is though, some of those snake oil treatments turned out to work, but most of them resulted in huge problems for people taking them. It wasn't uncommon for there to be actual poison in there.
In this case, we don't know what the consequences are going to be, but we do know that they're not likely to be good. If they were likely to be good, these companies would be going through the FDA approval process so they could potentially charge a lot more money and bill insurance for the treatments.
The fact that they're doing this illegal end-run around that process suggests that there's something wrong with the treatment or they lack the confidence that the treatment can meet current FDA standards.
So yes, this stuff is almost certainly snake oil and it's completely disingenuous to suggest that this is the same as the other treatments that have been approved and tested.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Monday December 04 2017, @04:03PM
That process is expensive and slow.
People who want to experiment on themselves should be able to do so. The companies in the summary will just make it more streamlined to do so.
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