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by bpodgursky 22 days ago
In the US it's legal-sorta but the NIH can't fund it and the FDA is not allowed to approve treatments based on it. So someone could do it in a research setting but there's not a pathway to market in the US (in practice people will do the first ones in a friendly legal climate like Peru).
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bonsai_spool 22 days ago
> In the US it's legal-sorta but the NIH can't fund it and the FDA is not allowed to approve treatments based on it

What references are you following? Haven't heard this before.

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fc417fc802 22 days ago
I don't have citations to hand but I can attest that this has been the case for a long time now. There are jurisdictions that are more open to various semi-banned (either unfundable, a regulatory morass, or both) topics of research; China is famous for offering lucrative grants to attract foreign researchers of many of these.
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Onavo 22 days ago
> the FDA is not allowed to approve treatments based on it

Unless you live in the Whitehouse.

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