This Guy Says He’s The First Person To Attempt Editing His Dna With Crispr
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This is perhaps the only Buzzfeed article I enjoyed readng, so thanks for sharing.
I don't see how sending an email could hurt - would be better if this guy were sporting an NW3 himself. What this guy is doing is pretty reckless though. Despite its coverage, Crispr is still a fairly nascent technology, and I would never do what he's doing. But I like the idea of people who are willing to do so are able to experiment with their own bodies. It takes way too long for a product to go from research into humans.
I don't see how sending an email could hurt - would be better if this guy were sporting an NW3 himself. What this guy is doing is pretty reckless though. Despite its coverage, Crispr is still a fairly nascent technology, and I would never do what he's doing. But I like the idea of people who are willing to do so are able to experiment with their own bodies. It takes way too long for a product to go from research into humans.
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As far out as this sounds I think DIY biohacking has some real potential and might have even more promise than these hair loss companies and their products.
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This is the site of this guy, where he sells his sh*t:
http://www.the-odin.com/
So far, nothing impressive yet.
http://www.the-odin.com/
So far, nothing impressive yet.
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Only five more years!... and something worthwhile may come out of it. But, as the article stated, a more sophisticated level of technology and equipment would be necessary to produce results for certain therapies. Such things, Tsuji would likely have in their facility right now. Fascinating prospects though. If I had time, I would dust off my biochem degree and fire up some CRISPR in my garage also.
Imagine that, us bald losers online treat hairloss faster than Dr Tsuji himself, editing the balding gene would be the biggest platform for this guy to become rich and rich fast, does he know what he's doing though?
I think if we've learned something from all these companies scamming and delaying all their products it's that we need to do something ourselves and this may be it, the problem is that there's so many genes that affect make up the balding human, editing out all of these genes is kind of like taking finasteride right? You take this gene out and it affects your hair and something else too.
The problem with trying to cure something like male pattern baldness with Gene editing, is that male pattern baldness is not a result of one Gene - it's a result of a combination of genes. I'm no scientist, but I've read lots of times that diseases are rarely dependent on one Gene.
So challenge will be to find the right combination and then make the kit. Reminds me a lot like web development - it takes a lot of effort to build the foundation, but then we can build on top and create "templates" inexpensive.
So challenge will be to find the right combination and then make the kit. Reminds me a lot like web development - it takes a lot of effort to build the foundation, but then we can build on top and create "templates" inexpensive.
What if you only treat the big ones instead of every single gene connected to balding, I think in that case the disease would start much later in someone's life rather than earlier, I think if people are serious about doing this, they need to hurry up and do it before the FDA starts to regulate it because then you're fucked for another 20 or so years.
Have you emailed him? I already did, if we want him to make something like this we need to show lots of interest
f*** then I'll up you one and I'll mail him on 3 accounts.
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INB4 turning ourselves into pseudo-saiyans with long,healthy and durable hairs; taller and bigger bodies; unlimited and easy muscle building, longer life span, and faster mental speed
Just need to pin our arms with the correct gene.
Do the same thing and email this guy about how much he could make and also try and email him about how much people are suffering from this disease and that he could potentially gain a sh*t ton of attention all over the world for this. A hairloss cure would only be the start.
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What are you guys even talking about? You can't just put gene therapy in a box and sell it. How is everyone here forgetting about government regulations, especially on something as cutting edge as CRISPR? Clinical trials, anybody...?
It turns out, you can. You must simply stated that the kit is used for educational purposes only and not meant to treat or cure diseases. Doing trials on humans is illegal, doing them on yourself is an FDA loophole.
For those of you who have been emailing the guy - make sure you're using tracking code to know if he is opening them. Use polymail, nylas mail or a Gmail plugin. Or create a link, use Google's URL shortner and see if he clicks it.
It's kind of like all those companies selling Ru for educational purposes, in reality everyone knows they're selling it so people can rub it into their head and gain some hair. Potentiallly this could at least save us a bunch of years of balding at the very minimum if this guy decides to help us out, just depends on how many emails he gets, someone should email him a link to this post and tell him to at least reply to us so we don't get our hopes up or anything.