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Biotech / Medical : T/FIF, a New Plateau

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To: jayhawk969 who wrote (35)3/5/2000 2:18:00 PM
From: Torben Noerup Nielsen  Read Replies (1) of 2243
 
J.D.,

Barring some completely unforeseen advance in computational science, there's a long way to go before we'll be able to really understand proteins. Right now, we're still a long ways from determining the structure of any reasonably sized protein based on the gene sequence. And we have to move past that and on to determining - in advance - how making even small changes to a single one would change it's interaction with all the rest. It's staggering. Mere somatic gene modification is an easy task in comparison.

20-40 years for this one?

Thanks, Torben
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