June 25 2019, 17:13

Biohacking at home: Justin Atkin demonstrates the wonders of genetic engineering at home. He prepared and ate an AAV virus enriched with a bacterial genome encoding the lactase enzyme. The virus delivered a little package to the DNA and fixed his primary lactose intolerance. On Reddit, however, they call him a fool, but no one disputes the scientific component and the result – the process itself was previously described and tested on mice, and now on Justin.

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