Should biohackers be regulated? Depends on your definition of ‘biohackers’

Alex Pearlman
5 min readOct 4, 2021

New guidelines for stem cell and gene therapies miss the mark

This story was originally published in Sex, Drugs, and Biotech in May 2021.

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Newly released guidelines from an international stem cell advisory group say that biohackers who want to treat themselves with at-home kits should be better regulated.

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Alex Pearlman

Reporter. Bioethicist. Publishing on the intersection of ethics and policy with emerging science and tech.