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Serious? Can you link and/or summarize?
by mod 5y ago
Serious? Can you link and/or summarize?
- snypher 5y agohttps://youtu.be/J3FcbFqSoQY https://youtu.be/J3FcbFqSoQY and https://youtu.be/aoczYXJeMY4 https://youtu.be/aoczYXJeMY4
- PowerfulWizard 5y agoThese are great and provoked me to really look into how it worked when I discovered them a few months ago. I'd suggest watching the 2nd (retrospective) video first, and then the first video if you're interested in more detail.
- nexuist 5y agoHoly shit, my mind is blown at this. I had seen this channel's works before but not this series. Was this ever reported anywhere? This is crazy news.
- bckr 5y agoPopular mechanics did a story: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a17804128/scientist-painstakingly-documents-his-own-diy-gene-therapy/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a17804128/sc... My mind also remains blown.
- bckr 5y agoThanks to others for linking. Summary: Guy is lactose intolerant. He inserts a sequence providing lactose tolerance into an adeno-associated virus. He then infects himself with this virus, which inserts the target sequence into his own genome. He is then able to gorge himself on pizza without digestive problems, and he's still able to do so several months later. The adeno-associated virus is like a retrovirus, except that, per [0], the AAV will insert at a particular location in the genome, instead of at random locations. [0] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Adeno-associated_virus https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Adeno-associated_virus