Thursday, June 17, 2010

NYT: The genome at 10

From The New York Times:

THE GENOME AT 10: Awaiting the Genome Payoff

The Human Genome Project has not produced the promised cornucopia of new drugs.

http://nyti.ms/dm9RBi



A couple of observations:

1. A revolution in the instruments of production is at the same time a revolution in the instruments of science.

2. Perhaps one of the problems is reducing the human being to a chemical machine.

jd

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