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Date: | Mon, 12 Dec 2022 09:29:31 -0500 |
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The tale begins: On Feb. 28, 1953, Francis Crick walked into the Eagle pub in Cambridge, England, and, as James Watson later recalled, announced that "we had found the secret of life."
Well, they didn't. They maybe figured out the alphabet, but ultimately genetic coding is vastly more complex and interlinked than the most sophisticated computer program, literature, or any other human made product. The Brits were coming out of World War II, they had cracked the German's codes and had made headway using computer programming to solve problems that had been out of reach before.
The "gene" and the concept of genetics predates the discovery of DNA, and while there is no doubt that there are hereditary traits, and lethal genetic mutations, etc.—nobody has a handle on this. Being able to manipulate DNA and get some results (GM corn) is simply not the same as understanding what the hell you are working with.
PLB
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