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Re:Gene Editing Tool Hailed as a Breakthrough, and It Really... by dekhn on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @12:19PM (#10807693)
I'm not denying running these experiments is becoming much more feasible for small institutions but you have a pretty naive understanding on how to turn these kinds of experiments into successful therapies.

There is often a huge disconnect between what we can reliably and reproducibly show in a lab, and what can be turned into therapy. And that's not just as simple as mining the literature and running more trials.

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Re:Gene Editing Tool Hailed as a Breakthrough, and It Really... by reasonattlm on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @12:46PM (#10807900)
One of my points is that adoption is going to precede the current consensus definition of "successful therapy" by a decade, in much the same way as happened for stem cell therapies following the turn of the century.
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