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Studies like these always make me think how little we know about human body. I wonder when are we going to stop doing these kind of studies and learn from human
by 31reasons 12y ago
Studies like these always make me think how little we know about human body. I wonder when are we going to stop doing these kind of studies and learn from human body as purely engineering system. By simulating it at a molecular level and understanding it that way.
Where are the chips that mimic cells and help create complete simulation of a trillion+ cell system? We need Elon Musk of human body :)
- melling 12y agoHow about simply being able to better monitor/measure changes in the body?
- glibgil 12y agoHow about that.
- 31reasons 12y agoChanges of what? There are millions of parameters that affect each other in a nonlinear fashion due to genetics, environment, diet etc. Getting such data from the living system would be prohibitively invasive, blood tests have their limitations and doesn't provide real-time data.
- melling 12y agoI don't know what can be or should be measured. The idea is to develop better techniques for monitoring the body. A future tricorder X-Prize, for instance: http://tricorder.xprize.org http://tricorder.xprize.org You're telling me what we can do today. I'm asking what we can develop to solve the problem.
- niels_olson 12y ago> simulating it at a molecular level It's a work in progress http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph240/milic1/ http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph240/milic1/ Eukaryotic cells are much more complicated though. It has been estimated we have done 1% of the biological experiments necessary to figure out how a human actually works. Anybody want to fund my prostate cancer biomarker discovery project?
- toomuchtodo 12y ago> Anybody want to fund my prostate cancer biomarker discovery project? Only if you'll fund my endometriosis genome study (I need 25k participants) and the resulting CRISPR/Cas9 gene variant protocol trials ;)
- 31reasons 12y agoSpeaking of CRISPR, how big of a discovery/invention is that ? Is it going to change medicine forever ?
- toomuchtodo 12y agoCRISPR is revolutionary, and apparently dangerous enough that some researchers are advocating for it to be disallowed.