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Title    "Biohacker" Injects DIY Herpes Vaccine in Front of Audience and Facebook Live
Date    Wednesday February 07 2018, @10:28AM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the how-do-you-test-its-effectiveness? dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/02/07/0542236

takyon writes:

"Biohackers" are growing bolder with their self-experimentation:

Aaron Traywick, 28, who leads biotech firm Ascendance Biomedical, used an experimental herpes treatment that did not go through the typical route of clinical trials to test its safety. Instead of being developed by research scientists in laboratories, it was created by a biohacker named Andreas Stuermer, who "holds a masters degree and is a bioentrepreneur and science lover," according to a conference bio. This is typical of the Ascendance approach. The company believes that FDA regulations for developing treatments are too slow and that having biohackers do the research and experiment on themselves can speed up the process to everyone's benefit. In the past, the company's plans have included trying to reverse menopause, a method that is now actually in clinical trials.

"We prefer to do everything before a live audience so you can hold us accountable in the days to come as we collect the data to prove whether or not this works," Traywick said before last night's spectacle. And, he added, "if we succeed with herpes in even the most minor ways, we can move forward immediately with cancer."

Despite specifying that he wanted "technical questions," someone in the audience asked whether Ascendance had received ethical permission for the experiment. Traywick said he didn't. Technically, everything has been officially labeled "not for human consumption," he said.

Also at The Scientist.

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Original Submission

Links

  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "growing bolder" - https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/5/16973432/biohacking-aaron-traywick-ascendance-biomedical-health-diy-gene-therapy
  3. "Ascendance Biomedical" - http://ascendance.io/
  4. "holds a masters degree and is a bioentrepreneur and science lover" - https://www.biosummit.org/andreas-stuermer/
  5. "trying to reverse menopause" - https://inoviumrejuvenation.com/about-us
  6. "in clinical trials" - https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03178695
  7. "The Scientist" - https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/51553/title/Biohacker-Injects-DIY-Herpes-Vaccine-on-Facebook-Live/
  8. "Gene Therapy to Kill Cancer Moves a Step Closer to Market" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/07/15/1633242
  9. "Biohackers Disregard FDA Warning on DIY Gene Therapy" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/12/01/230219
  10. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=24714

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