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Sat 16 Jul, 2011 01:08 am
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ScienceDaily (July 14, 2011) — The power to edit genes is as revolutionary, immediately useful and unlimited in its potential as was Johannes Gutenberg's printing press. And like Gutenberg's invention, most DNA editing tools are slow, expensive, and hard to use -- a brilliant technology in its infancy. Now, Harvard researchers developing genome-scale editing tools as fast and easy as word processing have rewritten the genome of living cells using the genetic equivalent of search and replace -- and combined those rewrites in novel cell strains, strikingly different from their forebears.
@oristarA,
I consider it poor writing. The introductory sentence is not ascribing the power to do this to anyone. It is an abstract statement, which ought to have been written:
The power to edit genes would be as revolutionary, immediately useful . . . (etc.); the author then could have explained that the editing of genes is in its infancy, and continued with a discussion of the Harvard researchers.
@oristarA,
In " and combined those rewrites in novel cell strains, strikingly different from their forebears" in that context, what are "strikingly different from their forebears?" The "novel cell strains?"
@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:
Yeah, so it seems.
Thank you.
Is the writing awkward? It looks elusive for me to catch it.
The biggest question remained is what to be "
combined" with there?
@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:
"Re-writes"
He started a whole new thread about this...
@contrex,
contrex wrote:
Setanta wrote:
"Re-writes"
He started a whole new thread about this...
Here "rewrite" serves as a noun, which is novel to me.
So, because it's novel to you, you thought i was lying to you?
@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:
So, because it's novel to you, you thought i was lying to you?
Never have I thought you were lying.
@oristarA,
I didn't actually believe you'd thought i was lying--i was indulging a fit of pique.
@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:
I didn't actually believe you'd thought i was lying--i was indulging a fit of pique.
I'm glad to think it is over now.
Cheers.
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