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Yeah I don't think the problem is the metaphor for Crispr, the problem is that we don't really understand most of the stuff it's supposed to be able to cure som
by el_cujo 7y ago
Yeah I don't think the problem is the metaphor for Crispr, the problem is that we don't really understand most of the stuff it's supposed to be able to cure some day. Crispr is at the end of the day just a tool. If we don't know where to "cut" with Crispr, we can't very well use it to do anything. Now that we know we have the tool to cut, in the future it will probably be very useful, but for all the Crispr hype, it was never really going to be a "nice everything is cured now" like some of the media liked to imply, rather that we have another tool in the box to work towards making use of.
- WhompingWindows 7y agoYou're not thinking broadly enough. Crispr is already very, very useful for biological research. Thinking just in terms of medicine is far too narrow for such a game-changing biological technology.
- el_cujo 7y agoNo offense intended, but maybe you're not thinking broadly enough? It's a breakthrough technology for biological labs now, sure, but a lab using this to get a bunch of papers or grants or patents really doesn't matter for the general populace in the short term until the research has produced some practical applications.