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Re:Billions’ worth of high-tech research seeking to make dea... by legulere on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @08:01AM (#13975816)
DNA technology is hardly used medically, even though it is becoming cheap and relatively old.

CRISPR/Cas9 is more precise than technologies before, but still not perfect: http://www.nature.com/news/enzyme-tweak-boosts-precision-of-...

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Re:Billions’ worth of high-tech research seeking to make dea... by CodeCube on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @09:41AM (#13976455)
... yet ;)

These things have a way of being impossible until they are not. It used to be impossible to communicate with someone a great distance away, then we invented the telegraph. It used to be impossible to see someone at a great distance, then our seemingly-unrelated breakthroughs in network technology brought us easy consumer video chat.

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