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Re:CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing causes lots of mutations by tyre on Thursday July 19, 2018 @11:57AM (#17567503)
We are so ridiculously far that it's not really worth thinking about. We're still at the stage of simulating how molecules interact with each other. To work our way up even to the single-cell organism level would be a historic human achievement.

To simulate an entire human body is computationally mindboggling. The number of cells are in the tens of trillions and we'd need to simulate their responses, not just to the drugs we care about, but doing so while "operating" (feeding, sleeping, etc.) the simulated body.

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Re:CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing causes lots of mutations by d0lph on Thursday July 19, 2018 @03:08PM (#17569381)
I have no experience in this area, but. Once you get the molecules and their interactions down wouldn't that make all other types of cells easier to produce?

And at a certain point couldn't you just feed the simulation DNA and watch it grow?

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Re:CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing causes lots of mutations by infinite8s on Friday July 20, 2018 @11:13AM (#17575630)
It takes supercomputers days to simulate milliseconds of interactions between a million atoms using classical mechanics (ie Newton's Laws, basically a ball and spring model so not even accounting for quantum effects except through very rough approximations in the spring constants). We don't even have an accurate model for water yet.
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