May 27, 2018
Live forever or die trying: Meet the biohackers who fear their work could get them killed
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, life extension, transhumanism
Long story in The Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/…/biohacking-transhumanism-aa… #transhumanism #biohacking
On the morning of 29 April, staff at the Soulex spa in Washington DC discovered the lifeless body of one of its clients lying face down in a sensory deprivation tank. The body was that of 28-year-old Aaron Traywick, who less than three months earlier had injected himself live on stage at an event in Austin, Texas, with an untested gene therapy that he claimed could cure herpes.