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Human biology is hard. We don't have a cure for AIDS, baldness, acne, heart disease, cancer, the common cold, etc.
by the_economist 10y ago
Human biology is hard. We don't have a cure for AIDS, baldness, acne, heart disease, cancer, the common cold, etc.
- xg15 10y agoAlso note that "schizophrenia" is not an illness but a family of illnesses (and even that definition is one of the less fuzzy ones). Finding a "universal cure" is as likely as finding a universal cure for cancer. That is, very unlikely.
- davidjnelson 10y agoOh wow I didn't know that. I thought it was a neurotransmitter issue with unbalanced levels of various neurotransmitter and/or receptors, but I don't know much about it. Science will get there someday though! I guess for both cancer and complex mental illness and other types of complex illness, the trick would be to both find a workable solution to each sub-problem, and then use them to address the full complex. It would be cool if companies were working on these types of approaches. I wonder if any are?
- davidjnelson 10y agoHuman biology is indeed incredibly complex. I'm inspired by the star trek tricorders and medicine. Some day :-)