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Hunting Disease Origins By Whole-Genome Sequencing
ChocSnorfler writes "James Lupski, a physician-scientist who suffers from a neurological disorder called Charcot-Marie-Tooth, has been searching for the genetic cause of his disease for more than 25 years. Late last year, he finally found it — by sequencing his entire genome. While a number of human genome sequences have been published to date, Lupski's research is the first to show how whole-genome sequencing can be used to identify the genetic cause of an individual's disease."
Because it's fraud. The Healthcare as being discussed in Congress is nothing but a giant power-grab of epic proportions. If they were serious about healthcare reform (and we truly need it), they would scrap these bills and deal with laws already in place that cause high cost in the industry in the first place.
It's sort of like having a painter come in and paint your house. He did such a horrible job, yet you hired him again to fix what he messed up in the first place. That's exactly what's about to happen with regards to Healthcare reform in the US.
Life is not for the lazy.
And for every one of those corporations, 10 million conservatives and libertarians who would take to the web to explain in great detail why them doing so was moral, beneficial to us all, and would only be opposed by statist, collectivist fools who would rush us headlong to the Soviet model. In the libertarian world, if it's profitable then it's moral. In the conservative one, the same formula applies, except for drugs and sex.