“I brought presents”
This week at Biohack The Planet 2019, Gabriel Licina, a biologist with Scihouse Inc., delivered a presentation about our latest progress in gene therapy development, as well as a hard-hitting message to the “biohacker” community in general, breaking with the fringe notion of embracing amateurish geewiz closet projects, and pie in the sky “entrepreneurial” fever dreams.
“Glybera was the first gene therapy approved in the EU back in 2013, and they put on the market for 1 million dollars, one person got it. … It works and it’s a million dollars.”
With the help of Scihouse Inc. the international team Gabriel Licina, Andreas Stürmer, and David Ishee reverse engineered Glybera (a million-dollar viral gene therapy approved in the EU for treatment of hereditary Lipoprotein lipase deficiency) and reapplied its technology to a non-viral gene therapy delivery mechanism called minicircles. This method allows for a dramatically lower production cost but must be administered over several doses rather than just one injection. Development of this treatment cost ~$7000, production will cost pennies. Lives will be saved, where once they would have been sacrificed. This happened for no other reason than greed, with prices set by corporate middlemen who played no part in its development.
“I need more data, I can’t even responsibly say if it works with just my data points, which is why I’m giving it to you guys to test, we are so far away, not in a 13 years of clinical trials type of way but I’m just one person, with a set of data points, it’s totally irresponsible for me to be like, well I got some good data I guess the next thing were going to do is, “heat man are you desperate, I got a needle” thats not how it should work. I think thats part of the problem, that were so frantic to get away from the regulatory system that already exists, that were running hard in the opposite direction, into mad max “in three to five years I’m going to be stabing all sorts of people” and that doesn’t make any sense. I don’t know I need more data”
We have had very positive results, and we are waiting for peer-review by the independent genetic engineering community, before moving forward with FDA approval and human trials. If you would like to participate in the peer review please feel free to contact us.
“I would like to propose that we grow up a little bit”
“This is our cathedral moment, this is our victory gardens in the war for the world, this is the time when we might actually watch our families and our loved ones die in front of us, … anyone who has looked at the data knows that that’s the case. This is the time for us to stop playing around with our petty self centered little projects and actually do something that matters.”
A pertinent message to the biohacking community that really doesn’t need commentary. We all know what’s at stake, and we all know why.
“Life extension is pretty useless if most the people are going to die from drought, fire, food shortage, extreme weather, in the next thirty years, the same goes for medicine, having really dope medicine is really useless if you’re just going to starve to death. So my friends made this, we can crank a new one out on the regular but who gives a crap if we’re all dead, … right?”
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