Posted on 02/23/2019 7:22:17 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Will it be allowed to distinguish male from female?
I noted on your chart 2008 the cost started huge down trend...From the article:
From 2001 to 2007, the speed and reduction in costs of genetic sequencing had been moving as fast as Moore’s Law – roughly doubling in speed and halving in cost every 18 months.
But something amazing happened in 2008… Genetic sequencing began accelerating at a speed five times that of Moore’s Law.
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No explanation for the accelerating price decreases...
Wonder if it has anything/something to do w/Obama...
Nothing will ever be the same again...the genie is out of the bottle.
The sequencing alone only deciphers the DNA code, then it must be carefully read to find anomalies and if found they must be edited (corrected) and then injected into the body.
Still a ways to go. I doubt very much the little girl has been cured yet.
Waddya bet they never find the "Gay" gene.
Identifying immunity genes could spell an end to vaccines.
It's one thing to identify what I'll call 'sick' genes and another thing to repair the gene or cure the disease. E.g., if a gene is identified that shows the person will have a propensity to get cancer, unless that gene can be repairer the benefit becomes early diagnosis and managing the disease in its earliest stage. This is not curing the disease.
Would it be cynical to believe that modern medicine is more interested in managing disease as opposed to permanent cures because great fortune is made in a lifetime of disease management??
I agree with other posters that making our gene data public will serve insurance company underwriters to the hurt of those with 'risky' genes.
nice this to some degree helped Grace, but maybe I’m behind the times - i thought they could only map/decifer a portion of all a person’s DNA not full DNA?
No. We already know a lot about genes involved in immunity. Knowing how the immune system works does not eliminate the need for vaccines. It does allow us to design vaccines that are more immunogenic with fewer side effects.
Only for Mohammedans.
“Screening parents.”
“Therapeutic selection.”
Denial of right to reproduce?
Compulsory sterilization?
Anyone who thinks I am alarmist, pay heed:
In Upper-Division Genetics Lab - circa 1978 - I was a captive audience to students openly proclaiming that the Federal government would have to use force to sterilize genetically inferior persons who carried the potential for recognized genetic diseases - in order to preserve the sanctity of the gene pool.
The teacher listened with a beatific smile to all of this. I felt like I was in a classroom full of future Frankensteins.
Read that date again: 1978. Some of those have been medical doctors for decades now.
I left pre-med on account of that horror.
P.S.
The most vociferous advocates for forced sterilization were... women.
give the gift to your loved ones that keeps on giving: one hundred bucks for genome on ancestery.com and five bucks to feed the text file into promethease.com for analysis ... many diseases pointed to with high probability so medical testing can be focused instead of shotgunned ...
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