Now this is what I call NEWS!!!!

http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,68019,00.html?tw=rss.TEK

Scientists are closing in on techniques that could let them safely repair almost any defective gene in a patient, opening the door for the first time to treatments for a range of genetic disorders that are now considered incurable.

The breakthrough, announced in the journal Nature in June, relies on so-called zinc fingers, named after wispy amino acid protuberances that emanate from a single zinc ion. When inserted into human cells, the fingers automatically bind to miscoded strands of DNA, spurring the body's innate repair mechanism to recode the problem area with the correct gene sequence.

 

Wow....fantastic. I'm soon to be a biochemistry major...it'll be interesting to see how procedures such as these will change the face of medicine. Thanks for the link Kodo!

 

can this make my wife less bitchy?

 

Sorry mate, I don't think any level of gene therapy can remove that gene. It's only life threatening to the opposite sex..

 

Flowers man! And jewellery.

 

More expensive than a jab!