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Ze Pollack posted:We have enough of a handle on genetics at this point that we can do some truly amazing things- it's just a matter of having the time and patience to try every one of several million keys in every one of several million locks. What "amazing things" are you referring to? It's true that we've made some amazing progress in our knowledge of genetics/genomics and the technology used for sequencing and analyzing the resulting data, but turning that into some technological progress that will actually have a noticeable affect on a significant portion of the population is still very far in the future (if it will happen at all). We'll probably be able to address diseases/conditions that have some straight-forward genetic cause, but most serious ailments that people experience (like cancer) are so complex that we aren't even close to being able to address them. Basically, the huge strides we've made have enabled us to understand just how difficult it'll be to actually make practical use of all this new data. That being said, we might be able to do some cool stuff with things like GMOs, but usually when people say things like you said they're referring to human-related stuff like somehow giving people resistance to diseases before they're born. It's really a shame that so many smart people go into finance, because people with a strong background in areas like statistics are direly needed in fields like biology.
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