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Yep, pretty much. It’s a very interesting time - genetic therapies have extremely low marginal cost, but very high capital cost. Unlike software systems, they c
by koeng 6y ago
Yep, pretty much. It’s a very interesting time - genetic therapies have extremely low marginal cost, but very high capital cost. Unlike software systems, they can mean life or death. Piracy of genetic therapies will be really interesting.
Someday we might not just have antivaxers, but “rogue vaxers” who develop vaccines to diseases that pharma ignore and DIY test themselves.
- thunderbong 6y agoThis seriously sounds like the plot of a dystopian sci-fi movie!
- haxiomic 6y agoWe have this today to an extent, here’s someone who tested a DIY gene editing cure for lactose intolerance on themselves https://youtu.be/aoczYXJeMY4 https://youtu.be/aoczYXJeMY4 (Spoiler: it worked, very well in fact!)
- koeng 6y agoIm a bit suspicious of the lactose experiment, mainly because there wasn’t hard data to back it up. Back then there was a spurt . AFAIK there are two people who have DIY gene engineered themselves and have actually gotten data to back it up, but only 1 who is public about it, and it wasn’t a cool experiment (just showed RNA transcription) so it isn’t even easy to find. Josiah Zayner pretty much knows everyone who has tried DIY gene injection and over the last year or so there has actually been a decrease in people trying it (bit stale from 2019, but here is his presentation at BioHTP https://youtu.be/1QOFDpYnEgY?t=4904 https://youtu.be/1QOFDpYnEgY?t=4904)