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With genetic testing that can now be performed prior to birth determining certain genetic disfunction, do you believe there will ever be a medical and scientific breakthrough that will one day be able to reverse and/or correct the disfunction in the womb?
yes its not far away.
lot of advancements have been made in the field of genetic testing and hence even now its possible to screen for any possible genetic problems in the offspring.
also, theoretically it is now possible to insert correct copies of genes into the baby to correct the possible problem.
but then, such genetic manipulation in humans (in the womb itself) is not permissible under law and there are lots of controversies about the ethical issues around it.
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Prasanth Subramani
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I have a broad knowledge in subjects like applied bioinformatics (for example, pathogenomics, computer aided drug design etc)(but not the computational aspects like algorithms, data mining etc), genetic engineering, genomics, molecular therapeutics, drug design and discovery, immunology, cancer and hiv biology,genomics and proteomics. i will be happy to answer fundamental queries in these areas.
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I am graduating in fall 2006, and hoping to work towards a PhD in life sciences/bioinformatics/pharmaceutical sciences. i have about 16 technical oral/poster presentations to my credit. i am the co-author of 7 papers which have been published. (while some of my manuscripts are still being reviewed). i am pretty confiedent about answering queries as i have taken core courses in more than 50 subjects relating to life sciences.
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Associate editor of journal of young investigators,USA
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http://www.jyi.org/research/re.php?id=637
http://www.jyi.org/research/re.php?id=610
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