A French teenager encrypted passages from the Bible and the Koran using a nucleotide sequence and injected himself with the resulting DNA. According to the Iflscience information portal, the scientific community dubbed the young man an idiot. Adrien Locatelli from the city of Grenoble decided to conduct a life-threatening experiment because he wanted to know "is it even possible to do this." He encrypted all the names of the Hebrew characters in Genesis except the heroes in verses 2:10 to 2:14 and from 7: 1 to 7: 5, because they seemed to him "contradictory."
He also encoded the entire 13th chapter of the Quran. Locatelli synthesized macromolecules in the laboratory and injected them into the leg. “Recent studies have shown that any information can be encrypted using DNA and stored in this form. I became the first living thing to store text. This is very symbolic, even if it does not bring any benefit,”the biohacker noted. According to him, while he did not have any side effects, only his leg was swollen for several days after the injection.
Locatelli's experiment shocked netizens, and most commentators thought it was silly and irresponsible. “Dear biohackers and others. Please stop. You idiots, "wrote Isaac Stoner, head of an antibiotic resistance research company, on Twitter. Ella Watkins, a graduate of the California Institute of Technology, commented on the incident: "This avant-garde approach and disrespect for scientific ethics makes me fear that at the end of humanity, the idiot will be to blame."
