Biohacker injects himself with DNA sequence made from Bible and Koran verses
A BIOHACKER injected himself with DNA sequence made from parts of the Bible and Koran in a risky experiment because he "wondered whether it would be possible".
Adrien Locatelli, from Grenoble in France, translated religious passages into DNA code to build unknown proteins which he then poured into his body.
The high-school student risked potentially fatal consequences after conducting the procedure without any knowledge of the effects the proteins would have on his body. Mr Locatelli, who claimed the bizarre experiment was the first of its kind, converted all of the letters in the holy books into a DNA sequence. A DNA strand is made up of chemicals represented by the letters ACGT, and all genes are coded for by a different combination of these four letters. Mr Locatelli replaced every Hebrew character in the Book of Genesis with DNA code, excluding 2:10 to 2:14, 5, and 7:1 to 7:5 because they were "controversial", going in the order of GACT.
He also replaced every Arabic letters from the 13th chapter from the Koran, the Surah Ar-Ra'd, with assigned nucleotides. Mr Locatelli used the sequences of DNA letters to convert into chemical chains which had the potential to transform into any number of proteins in the human body. The student then built the proteins in a lab before injecting himself, though it is unclear whether he injected different passages into either leg, or a mix of the two into both.
Publishing his article online, he wrote: "Recent studies have reported that it is possible to convert any type of information into DNA for the purpose of storage. "Since it is possible to convert digital information into DNA, I wondered whether it would be possible to convert a religious text into DNA and to inject it in a living being. "It is the first time that someone injects himself [with] macromolecules developed from a text. "It is very symbolic even if it does not have much interest."
The reaction to the insane DIY experiment has shocked people online with many users branding the teen an "idiot" and warning others against following similar tests. Ella Watkins, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology, tweeted: "This kind of avant-garde attitude and disregard for ethics towards science terrifies me that humanity's end will be at the hands of an idiot." Isaac Stoner, founder of a company researching antibiotic resistance, wrote: "Dear biohackers etc. Please stop. You are idiots." And Sri Kosuri, a biochemistry professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, added: "2018 can't end soon enough." Despite the endless list of potential side-effects, the teen only suffered a swollen left leg for a few days after the injection. archive.fo/NlK81
This is seriously stupid and selfish action, and it is a threat to humanity as a whole should he sire children. We do not know if his screwed up genes that enters the pool will have disastrous effects down the long road.
Owen Nelson
None of you understand biooogy in the slightest. You can’t “object yourself with DNA” and expect anything to happen. It’s not how it works.
Christian Jones
Oh, and nice Normiebook-tier clickbait title, OP. Polite sage for my doublepost
Eli Jenkins
How can you inject DNA in yourself? Even if the guy could synthese the molecule it would be just another molecule in the blood and would be broken by the body. Unless he engineered a virus the news is pure click bait.
Christopher Bennett
Was it a virus or just clickbait?
Luke Morris
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Eli Jackson
Huh? Also is there any proof he actually did that
Isaac Myers
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Jacob Collins
The gameplay was very well designed too. Stupid IGN journos who couldn't figure out how to play it.
Anthony Barnes
Read it properly. He made proteins from the DNA sequence and injected himself with those.
Gavin Lopez
Man… injecting the Koran. That's as silly as a Pokemon tattoo. Much of it is piecemeal apocryphal stories that already existed and not Islamic in origin. And now we have evidence from the earliest known manuscipt it wasn't exactly dictated in a straightforward fashion as Muhammad claims either.. but built up over many edits.
Ethan Rodriguez
Even the stoners…
Also, this swollen left leg is only because the body took those proteins as foreign antigens and was busy shredding that DNA Bible and Koran to itty-bitty pieces. So much for that though.
Wyatt Foster
putting dna into your bloodstream doesn't incorporate it into your genome. it's just floating in his blood. and getting broken down, because that's what your body does. he basically just took a super inefficient protein supplement.
Isaiah Lopez
The only potential hazard that I can think of, and maybe it isn't even relevant to this, but what if one of those fancy proteins he made ended up like a prion causing a cascade effect?
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Liam Bennett
Still does nothing. Foreign bodies ok the bloodstream are immediately attacked. What do you think happens when you scrape your shin on a tree root or something? Do you mutate into Swanp Thing?
