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Self-experimentation: A scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab (www.nature.com)
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Virologist Beata Halassy says self-treatment worked and was a positive experience — but researchers warn that it is not something others should try

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[-] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 6 points 3 weeks ago

Sorry by experimental what I meant here is something which is not ready to be tested in humans - this scientist was skipping a bunch of the necessary steps to show this is a safe thing to do (in lab grown cells first, for example) to proceed to human experimentation.

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