Article: The Feds Are Officially Cracking Down on Basement Biohackers

[Cory J. Geesaman]

https://gizmodo.com/the-feds-are-officially-cracking-down-on-basement-bioha-1820682025

Seems to instigated by DIY gene therapy, but could make for an interesting discussion.

[Kermit Henson]

the headline is clickbait

FDA is not against diybio movement, is against the use of crispr-kits to made a home-made gene therapy, which is another discussion.
Knowing a little bit about drug development history or miracle-drugs, this decision seems reasonable.

As geesaman, discussion can be interesting.

Should FDA allow some people to test it? Which sould be the requirements (beyond "only use on rare diseases")?
How to avoid snake oil as it happens with some cancer patients (hi jobs!!!)?

[Dennis Oleksyuk]

Here is a follow-up article with results of the vaccination https://medium.com/@aitheric/hiv-n6-experimental-therapy-results-1-month-8eda36f4f37c

It seems no results so far. 

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[Jonathan Cline]

This article is irresponsible journalism.  Such articles must explain the worst case outcome and the best case outcome in order to be considered objective (business outcomes, science outcomes and health outcomes), otherwise journalists are only creating FUD.

History is repeating itself in this area of work.  Refer back to the origins of Schedule 1 and Schedule 2 and the DEA vs. "community efforts".

On Wednesday, November 22, 2017 at 12:34:50 PM UTC-8, Cory J. Geesaman wrote:

https://gizmodo.com/the-feds-are-officially-cracking-down-on-basement-bioha-1820682025

Seems to instigated by DIY gene therapy, but could make for an interesting discussion.

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