• elbucho@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    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.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      6 days ago

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