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Andy_McKenzie comments on Request for suggestions: ageing and data-mining - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: bokov 24 November 2014 11:38PM

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Comment author: Andy_McKenzie 25 November 2014 09:29:25PM 2 points [-]

Quite possibly, see the work of Maria Konovalenko in this area. However, this is not an easy path and is far, far more dependent on technology to safely introduce genes to cells within tissues in the body than knowledge of which genes to target. Consider that there are many diseases for which the causative genes have been known for some time, yet this has not yet been used successfully for almost all of them.

Comment author: drethelin 26 November 2014 08:28:50PM 0 points [-]

That technology pretty much exists already, its just extremely under-advertised for various reasons.