I Accidentally Injected Myself With Dog DNA

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Antidotes for Chimps

4 min readNov 25, 2021

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The accident happened three months ago now. We were testing a new way to improve the DNA of humans, a touchy subject I know, but one with profound implications. Nobody would volunteer for our experiment, so I decided to do it myself.

That’s when I accidentally added dog DNA to my genome.

Rob Marchant

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