• HubertManne@piefed.social
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    17 days ago

    There was a male microbiologist to who did something to himself because he could not get approvals or it was taking to long or something. Can’t for the life of me remember what the thing he was doing was.

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        17 days ago

        no not that far back. like it the last year or few years and it was definately a gene editing type thing. I should be clear the article was the last year or few but I think the action that lead to it was not much earlier than the article.

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          16 days ago

          Apparently there are quite a lot of people doing gene editing on themselves and their pets in their own homes. It’s apparently fairly accessible.

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            16 days ago

            which is kinda funny because I cannot imagine doing it myself and I have done this type of work. Granted when I saw the lactose intolerance youtube guy do it he was able to get access to a lab so its not like he did it in his garage.

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        I mean that would be a bit easier to say if I could find the thing. Mainly it was a lot like this situation.