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I like to think that medicinal chemists are self-aware enough to not ingest anything they design, lol. There'd certainly be a lot more corpses than drugs in the
by whymauri 5y ago
I like to think that medicinal chemists are self-aware enough to not ingest anything they design, lol. There'd certainly be a lot more corpses than drugs in the market with self-testing.
In either case, I've definitely considered injecting myself with optogenetics expressing virus to skip a few decades of R&D.
- Ovah 5y agoThis guy CRISPR'd himself.. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/diy-dna-hacks-wounds-take-longer-to-heal-at-night-why-daydreams-are-good-quirks-bombs-and-more-1.4395576/meet-the-human-guinea-pig-who-hacked-his-own-dna-1.4395589 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/diy-dna-hacks-wounds-take-lo...
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- totony 5y agoAFAIK a lot of drugs can be fairly assumed to be mostly safe (aka won't kill you), although they may have long-term/non-lethal effects. So testing your own drugs wouldn't be creating that much corpses as long as you know what you're doing.
- 1986 5y agoHey, it worked for Albert Hofmann!
- COGlory 5y agoThen there's Alexander Shulgin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PiHKAL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PiHKAL