March 2012
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Personalized Medicine - Doctor studies on himself
Jonas Salk dosed himself with his new polio vaccine in 1952 before testing it on anyone else.Down the years, scientists have inhaled poisonous gases, swallowed possible treatments for worms and detonated bombs at close range to assess the effects on their own bodies.Now Michael Snyder has joined their ranks. The geneticist didn’t risk life and limb, but he did sacrifice his privacy —...
