Aaron Traywick, a biohacker and CEO of Ascendance Biomedical, took to the stage at biohacking event BDYHAX to inject himself with a herpes vaccine developed by his company in front of a live audience in Austin, Texas on Monday. Traywick acted as a volunteer for the new vaccine, as he himself has herpes. Ascendance Biomedical seek to find willing participants to test experimental treatments that have not gone through the normal route of rigorous clinical trials.