While what you say is true to a large extent – there have been a number of advances. One of the most interesting is targeted therapies. Performing genetic analysis gives significant insight into why people respond differently to treatment of a disease. For example, cancer patients – some of whom recovery remarkably, and others for whom the same therapy barely works.
To date, these studies have been confined to stage 4 cancer sufferers, but the results have been quite interesting (bear in mind most stage 4 sufferers are mostly expected to die, and sooner rather than later). I strongly suspect that as these techniques are brought to bear on patients with early stage cancer, we may be able to improve outcomes while reducing side effects substantially.
We may also develop important insight into why cancers for the most part do not advance, but in a few individuals do develop, grow and metastasize – ones genes still being the main determinant in who suffers from cancer or not.
We do not understand how life actually works @ the molecular level. The end.
We know a lot more than we knew a century ago.
Gabe Clarksays:
I always thought DNA was mostly various cellular blueprints and initial development with the brain handling the development of our more advanced biology, I’m looking at you gigantism.
While what you say is true to a large extent – there have been a number of advances. One of the most interesting is targeted therapies. Performing genetic analysis gives significant insight into why people respond differently to treatment of a disease. For example, cancer patients – some of whom recovery remarkably, and others for whom the same therapy barely works.
To date, these studies have been confined to stage 4 cancer sufferers, but the results have been quite interesting (bear in mind most stage 4 sufferers are mostly expected to die, and sooner rather than later). I strongly suspect that as these techniques are brought to bear on patients with early stage cancer, we may be able to improve outcomes while reducing side effects substantially.
We may also develop important insight into why cancers for the most part do not advance, but in a few individuals do develop, grow and metastasize – ones genes still being the main determinant in who suffers from cancer or not.
we may be able to improve outcomes while reducing side effects substantially.
We may.
“The real lesson of the human genome projectâ€:
We do not understand how life actually works @ the molecular level.
The end.
We do not understand how life actually works @ the molecular level. The end.
We know a lot more than we knew a century ago.
I always thought DNA was mostly various cellular blueprints and initial development with the brain handling the development of our more advanced biology, I’m looking at you gigantism.