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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is blatantly incorrect to a degree that i'd call it an outright lie, spending 30 seconds looking it up would show you that his video is literally titled "I Genetically Engineered MYSELF to Fix Lactose Intolerance".

[–] elbucho@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Shit - you know what? You're right. It's been a while since I saw the video, and I had it mixed up in my mind with a similar video I saw of a guy doing a fecal transplant to fix his lactose intolerance. I went back to check the Thought Emporium video, and yeah - he used a retrovirus to introduce the E. coli lacZ gene into his small intestine's brush border cells. That's my bad; sorry about the misinfo. You're also right that I could have easily looked it up, but I went from memory instead, and it was... unreliable.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

🤝
I'd recommend editing your previous comment to prevent anyone from spreading the mistake

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 week ago

That virus will insert randomly into the genome. Huge risk of cancer, assuming it isn't total bullshit like all of YouTube