#1) Vaccine design at home. This is an application of what is known colloquially as "bio-hacking" and as a topic group is no less impactful than "computer hacking."
#2) You can do something for < $1000 which wasn't possible before because of the industry that will print you rna sequences.
The whitepaper also lists some possible short and long term side effects.
I've TLDR'd most of them here for everyone:
-Immune tolerance: diminished immunity resulting from exposure to an antigen
-Vaccine-enhanced disease (VED): A small number of injected vaccines have led to enhancement of disease, meaning that infectivity is enhanced, or the disease is made more serious in people who have been vaccinated.
-Adjuvant hyperstimulation or toxicity: ..certain adjuvants have caused hyperstimulation and other serious side effects. For example, alum produces a robust Th2 immune response, but an unbalanced ratio of Th2:Th1. A Th2 polarized response, and alum in particular, have been implicated in immunopathology, including ADE. Adjuvants can also be toxic. As one example, the intranasal use of a detoxified mutant form of Escherichia coli Heat Labile Toxin has resulted in transient Bell’s palsy, or facial nerve paralysis.
The whitepaper then argues the following:
"And it becomes clear why the formulation described here has not been used in a commercial product; it is not lack of safety or efficacy, but other factors.."
>as a topic group is no less impactful than "computer hacking."
It's way less impactful. An amateur playing with computers might not achieve what a pro can, but it obviously has some effect. Computer programs are rarely a placebo.
Little these so-called bio-hackers do is known to be effective. That's almost by definition.
It's more difficult due to low observability of the system, low understanding of it, and long deployment cycle.
Still, it's hacking molecular nanotechnology. Possible developments are far more interesting than what we do with computers now. Let's give it some time.
I'll give biochemists all the time they need. I'll laugh in the face of anyone with a high school education in biology who injects themselves full of things they found online.
That said, the interesting bits are:
#1) Vaccine design at home. This is an application of what is known colloquially as "bio-hacking" and as a topic group is no less impactful than "computer hacking."
#2) You can do something for < $1000 which wasn't possible before because of the industry that will print you rna sequences.
Interesting stuff indeed.