• solrize@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    The “drug” appears to have been injecting a “viral vector” (whatever that is) into the monkeys’ ventral striatum. Do you really want to fix your procrastination by injecting viruses into your brain? I wonder if there is a behavioural or biofeedback way to get a similar effect.

    The research article (open access) is here: https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.cub.2025.12.035

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      4 months ago

      injecting viruses into your brain

      Have not read article. Virus and bacteria - plus everything else - can be utilized for resonant/dissonant purposes. All vira isn’t ‘bad’, and neither is all bacteria.

      Much of biotech evolves around extracting/converting these buggers - small systems - to do positive resonant work. A virus can be deactivated, or emulated, to activate our latent bio systems, or it can be deadly in the wrong environment, and a life giver in another.

      Besides, we are already infested with invading critters/lifeforms in every part of our bodies, and we would die without them…

      The biggest threat is big pharma that always tweak research data/consequences for profits…