Two months after his widely reported death, at age 28, biohacker Aaron Traywick was discovered to have accidentally drowned in the float tank he was using and that the drug ketamine was in his system. The FDA knows that gene therapy products intended for self-administration and kits to produce gene therapies for self-administration are being made available to the public. The sale of these products is against the law. The FDA is concerned about the safety risks that this entails.
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The CEO of a biomedical company that sparked controversy when an untested herpes treatment was injected in front of a live audience in February has died, according to an email sent to Live Science. The MDP is still investigating Traywick's death, although they point out that, at this time, they have no evidence to suggest foul play. Soon after that demonstration, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning about the use of unproven gene therapies, stating, in part, that the FDA knows that gene therapy products intended for self-administration and “do it yourself” kits are being made publicly available to the public to produce self-administration therapies.
Traywick and Roberts circumvented this law, however, through self-experimentation they did not sell the products. Ford Fischer, from New2Share, sat down to interview Traywick in early February. Poison control calls for children who ingest a cough suppressant have more than doubled in recent years. There was a problem.
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The controversial biohacker Aaron Traywick, who was found dead in a sensory deprivation tank in Washington, DC, on April 29, appears to have been planning to test a CRISPR therapy for lung cancer in humans, according to MIT Technology Review. Aaron Traywick lived life as a spectacle with all the cameras recording, so for those who knew him, it was not surprising that his death was also shrouded in spectacle and controversy. Aaron James Traywick (December 19, 1989 — April 29, 2001) was an American businessman and life extension activist in the transhumanism and biohacking communities.
