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Re:Gene Editing Tool Hailed as a Breakthrough, and It Really... by zzalpha on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @12:19PM (#10807697)
Yeah! Like, antibiotics, man. It was basically mold that invented that! Totally not a medical breakthrough at all... no idea why so many people were impressed by it.
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Re:Gene Editing Tool Hailed as a Breakthrough, and It Really... by bostonpete on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @01:29PM (#10808181)
Fusion was invented by the sun (at least in this solar system -- there are theories that it was independently invented elsewhere too)!
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Re:Gene Editing Tool Hailed as a Breakthrough, and It Really... by zzalpha on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @01:57PM (#10808357)
Pfft, the sun just cribbed that idea from the big bang. Typical, unoriginal sun...
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Re:Gene Editing Tool Hailed as a Breakthrough, and It Really... by dekhn on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @04:09PM (#10809081)
The difference is that antibiotics weren't a tool to make more discoveries. They were an immediately applicable medical breakthrough (which also happens to be a useful tool, for example as a genetic marker). CRISPR/Cas9 is just a tool, not an immediately applicable therapy.
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