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To: neverdem

PBS Nova had a thing on this. The ‘epigenome’ seems interesting, and manipulating it might be easier than changing the actual genome, so there might be some new treatments for diseases with the epigenome before some with the genome.


6 posted on 12/08/2007 3:49:10 AM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
PBS Nova had a thing on this. The ‘epigenome’ seems interesting, and manipulating it might be easier than changing the actual genome, so there might be some new treatments for diseases with the epigenome before some with the genome.

Yes. Ghost in your genes

If some treatments can be discovered, there will be less human suffering (and fewer abortions based on genetic testing).

7 posted on 12/08/2007 4:31:50 AM PST by syriacus (J. Bolton : "The world has put Iran on notice that it must stop pursuing nuclear weapons." (6/2003))
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