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I am not a biologist, but this discovery seems ground-braking to me. What strikes me as an interesting question (I hope someone of you can answer) is: How long

by tsenkov 13y ago

I am not a biologist, but this discovery seems ground-braking to me. What strikes me as an interesting question (I hope someone of you can answer) is: How long will it be, before physicians/gene specialists/biologists/etc. will use the new way of DNA interpretation in cases for regular people? How long before this discovery can be used in mainstream medicine? My (uneducated) guess is: there has to be a huge reevaluation of the accumulated data (and assumptions) about gene connections with deceases.

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schiffern 13y ago
>How long before this discovery can be used in mainstream medicine? Almost immediately. While it won't have therapeutic applications for some time, the first benefit will be helping scientists better understand the cause of certain diseases. >ground-braking That's like aerobraking, right? ;)
- dragonwriter 13y ago
  > > ground-braking > That's like aerobraking, right? ;) More like lithobraking [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithobraking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithobraking
- tsenkov 13y ago
  Oooops. :> It should've been groundbreaking*. Well, the "therapeutic applications" were kind of what I meant. I hope "some time" is not more than 5 years.