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shanietis @ 18:33: We Have Learned Nothing from the Genome
Apakšvirsraksts varētu būt arī par to kāpēc valstij nevajag pārāk daudz ko uzticēt, privātais bieži vien izdarīs to labāk un ātrāk. Tajā skaitā arī zinātnē. Un vēl interesanti būtu uzzināt, kā šo atklājumu gaismā iederās Dievzemītē realizētie latviskuma gēnu pētījumi vai kas nu tur bija :)

With it, we sequenced the human genome in nine months instead of many, many years. The public money that flowed into the Human Genome Project, above all, created an enormous, inflexible bureaucracy. And it is only because of private money that we can now sail across the ocean with this sailboat and discover 40 million genes -- there are only 41 million genes known to all of science. All you need are a few innovative ideas and independent funding to allow you to do things that other people can only dream about.

Un vēl:

SPIEGEL: The genome project hasn't just raised hopes -- but also worries. Do you understand those concerns?

Venter: Yes. There are two groups of people. People either want to know the information or they prefer to live like an ostrich with their head in the sand, not knowing anything. The fear is based on the ill-founded belief that those who know the DNA sequence also know every aspect of life. This nonsense has been spread by the same geneticists who were afraid of the commercialization of this stuff. From the time of the first few discoveries of gene defects -- Huntington's disease, for example, everybody thought that if you knew your genome, you would know when you would die and what you would die from. That is nonsense.
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Pilnais teksts: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,709174-3,00.html