There’s a thousand genes for that! (Ep 98)
Big Biology
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The Future of Genetics
I would say that actually in terms of the practical problems facing the world there are very simple things we know how to do not chop it down the forests. I'm a little bit skeptical about very elaborate technological ways of solving medical or conservation type problems because they're often a distraction from really doing what we know we ought to be. But on the other hand this sort of thing can be very useful first of all in my understanding heterogeneity in response to drugs and really interesting cancer genetics where you can try and produce treatments for particular cancers based on their particular sequence and so on.
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