These Superhumans Are Real. . .
Jul 22, 2015 16:24:47 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2015 16:24:47 GMT -6
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....under the category of 'what could go wrong??' comes another story of the betterment of man through modern medicine....or not.
It seems this is just the beginning too. Now I am starting to see the bigger picture for a DNA database, and it isn't JUST to identify the people they want to find...but to find what they want to identify in the first place!
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I'll bet they start finding more and more genetic relations to traits as the sample size gets larger. Perhaps at a real surprising rate? Anyway... That suggests more than one big use for widespread DNA storage and possible mass sequencing?
Steven Pete can put his hand on a hot stove or step on a piece of glass and not feel a thing, all because of a quirk in his genes. Only a few dozen people in the world share Pete’s congenital insensitivity to pain. Drug companies see riches in his rare mutation. They also have their eye on people like Timothy Dreyer, 25, who has bones so dense he could walk away from accidents that would leave others with broken limbs. About 100 people have sclerosteosis, Dreyer’s condition.
....under the category of 'what could go wrong??' comes another story of the betterment of man through modern medicine....or not.
It seems this is just the beginning too. Now I am starting to see the bigger picture for a DNA database, and it isn't JUST to identify the people they want to find...but to find what they want to identify in the first place!
Underlying this is the plummeting cost of gene sequencing. It took $3 billion and 13 years, from 1990 to 2003, to sequence the first human genome. The cost today is as low as $1,000 a patient, making it viable to sequence large numbers of people and discover relationships between genes and symptoms.
I'll bet they start finding more and more genetic relations to traits as the sample size gets larger. Perhaps at a real surprising rate? Anyway... That suggests more than one big use for widespread DNA storage and possible mass sequencing?
