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164: Biohacking: The Science of DIY HIV Treatment

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🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Would you change your genetic code at home if you could? One man decided to try in an attempt to cure his HIV....

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References & Further Reading

Tristran Roberts & The Treament
  1. https://twitter.com/aitherick?s=21
  2. https://www.futurefrontiers.co/speakers/tristan-roberts/
  3. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/19/style/biohacker-death-aaron-traywick.html
  4. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43973588.amp
  5. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/05/aaron-traywick-death-ascendance-biomedical/559745/
  6. https://gizmodo.com/this-guy-just-injected-himself-with-a-diy-hiv-treatment-1819659724/amp
  7. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41990981.amp
  8. https://law.stanford.edu/press/guy-just-injected-diy-hiv-treatment-facebook-live/
  9. https://www.futurefrontiers.co/speakers/tristan-roberts/
  10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpYE3cUogh0
Biohacking
  1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-019-0294-9
HIV & AIDS
  1. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/hiv-and-aids/
  2. https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/livingwithhiv/treatment.html
  3. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/hiv-and-aids/treatment/
  4. https://www.who.int/health-topics/hiv-aids#tab=tab_1
  5. https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/livingwithhiv/treatment.html
  6. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/hiv-and-aids/treatment/
  7. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2020/jan/us-health-care-global-perspective-2019

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I'm Corey, and as always, I'm joined by my co-host, Jamp, and Luke Cutforth.

1:23.9

Hello!

1:24.5

Hi, howdy. This week we're talking about hacking HIV and gorilla gene therapy.

1:37.3

But first, we have a YouTube comment.

1:40.3

Now, this one is from our gender dysphoria episode, episode one, five, seven, and it says

1:45.5

reasons I think the side guys would go to jail. Jamp either forgot to pay for a Snickers in the gas

1:50.8

station or went to pet a stranger's dog and that stranger was a dramatic harron that called the police.

1:55.7

Yeah, the dog won. Do you mean? Luke accidentally started a cult that enables emotional abuse

2:00.3

and mental distress on babies for science experiments,

2:02.4

or he accidentally built a radioactive nuclear weapon, definitely the first one.

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