Re:Ideas I'd Like To Work On
by petervandijck on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @08:45PM
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I'd like to work on bio engineering. I think it's the new hacking. And the real physical world is the new internet.
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Check out Stanislaw Burzynski and his son, who claim to cure cancer by deactivating genes that cause cancer and activating the ones that kill it, on a patient-by-patient basis with "FDA approved gene-targeted medicines" http://youtu.be/tXf7r4VBDgk http://www.burzynskiclinic.com/
Blows me away.
Have you read the book The Elementary Particles from Michel Houellebecq? There is something in it about what you are talking about, and it is an interesting novel, that I think, reads more like an essay towards the end, heh.