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Saturday, April 06, 2002While cloning gets all the media attention, it's this sort of small treatment and diagnostic advances that will make the greatest difference in the future of medicine. Even if we decide as a society that cloning is ethical and worthwhile, it will never be something that is done routinely. Natural reproduction is so much more reliable and more fun that it's unlikely to ever be supplanted by cloning. But being able to understand each person's genetic make-up and to use that information to provide treatment tailor-made to their body's blueprint is so exciting it gives me the shivers. We stand at the threshold of a new era of medicine, and one that will prove just as ground-breaking, and possibly moreso, than the era ushered in by microbiology advances at the beginning of the twentieth century. posted by Sydney on 4/06/2002 07:53:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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