The Future of Genetic Engineering

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The Future of Genetic Engineering

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I had hijacked Chad's thread on CRISPR and IQ to post new and interesting info on genetic engineering. The subject is one that will affect all of our lives very soon so I thought it deserved a topic of its own.

Here is a talk by George Church which I think is a good place to start.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6oh8ej ... e=youtu.be

It is hard for me to wrap my mind around how fast this is happening. One of his charts was a plot of the price of mapping a full human genome. The green line is a projection of the cost of mapping a full genome if the technology progressed at the speed of Moore's Law. The blue line is what really happened. At Moore's Law speed it would have taken six decades to accomplish what happened in six years.

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It is happening fairly fast. This is one area of tech where the US may fall behind. Countries with more authoritarian governments and less religious populations, China specifically, will be able to push this further faster.

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From the Jan 2017 journal Cell:
http://www.cell.com/molecular-therapy-f ... 5375-X.pdf

Small study. White blood cells genetically engineered to kill aggressive lymphoma. 57% complete remission.

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Cool, a free journal.

Things like this are partly why science works:

http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(16)31733-0

Why won't that link work?

Thanks.
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enigmaT120 wrote:
Why won't that link work?
If you select the whole link then click the URL button above, it should solve the problem.

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