Sentynel wrote:I doubt we'll get our short-sightedness fixed. Preventing children developing it is easier, but those of us who have it already have oddly-shaped eyeballs, which are much harder to fix.
Yup. And though the article makes it sound like knowing the gene sequence would solve the problem, it is far more complicated. Fine, you know the gene sequence so you know the proteins involved in causing it. But then, there is pathway that the protein follows, and you must know the pathway well before you can think of methods to block it. And, like Sent said, since our eyeballs are already disfigured (I got glasses when I was 14 and I honestly thought I had escaped short sightedness too), it would be no good for us. Our numbers would have well stabilized by then with little chance of increasing. So, even though a drug could prevent myopia and possibly even prevent its progression in children who suffer from it, it would be useless for us.
"If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination ... no more men!" - Einstein
"I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you." - Studs Terkel.
<@Ximenez> Sentynel: But i have a life? No. Qed.
