DNA pioneer predicts future for gene-screening

Gene-screening will be norm in 10 years, says DNA pioneer - Guardian

Extract:

"Personal DNA sequences will become a routine tool in the diagnosis of diseases within 10 years, according to the father of genetics, James Watson. He said that, as the costs of the sequencing technology tumble, doctors will be able to use the information to plan more effective treatments for conditions including mental illness, cancer, obesity and diabetes.

Professor Watson, who discovered the structure of DNA in 1953 with his Cambridge University colleague Francis Crick, was speaking yesterday at the launch of the Wellcome Collection, a new national museum based in London that will examine the scientific and artistic connections between people and biomedicine.

Using current technology sequencing a single person's DNA takes 20 technicians around nine months. "In five years the hope is that you could reduce that to a week with just two or three people," said Michael Jones, head of the genomics core lab at Imperial College London. "New technologies are trying to eliminate the technicians you need. The idea is you can take someone's DNA and plug it into a machine and the data will come out.""

Well, as far as "cancer, obesity and diabetes" are concerned, the main contributory cause is fluid retention/sodium retention/salt sensitivity, which in turn is caused by misinformation from the medical profession about the causes and treatment of obesity, coupled with their reckless prescribing, often in high dose, of drugs like steroids, HRT and certain antidepressants and other drugs which cause sodium and water retention, and inadequate or non-existent monitoring of patients taking the drugs. - The high-tech stuff detailed in the article would come very low indeed in any list of desirable expenditure I were to compile...

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