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In My Own Blood I Have Written The Things Important To Me
Adrien Locatelli, a French teenager claims to have injected DNA strands encoding verses from the Bible and the Quran in his thighs.
“I did this experiment only for the symbol of peace between religions and science … It’s just symbolic.” he told Motherboard. Sri Kosuri, a UCLA biochemist working on DNA for data storage and quoted in the paper was not amused, tweeting “2018 can’t end soon enough”.
Peak 2018, an inspiring science project, or something else? I will argue for the third option.
Posted in Anders Sandberg's Posts, Bioethics, Biotechnology, Ethics, Genetics | Tagged art, biotechnology, DNA, gene therapy, informed consent, morphological freedom, religion, self-experimentation, tattoos
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