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Alphabet Soup - Page 2


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even if we produced a picture of all of them at work, there exists yet another layer of the onion represented by a million constantly changing connections among our brain cells for each of the three billion units of DNA.

Meanwhile, an editorial in the Lancet contends that "only hypertension might succumb to the power of genetic understanding. But even for hypertension there is no simple gene-disease correlate."

Still, looking at that strange arrangement of four letters on my screen, I can't help but think we've got a partial piece of the puzzle in our sights. It may take us many long years yet to build the perfect weapon and fire off the right ammunition, but we're right in the midst of an exciting time where we're learning to identify our targets and take aim, and that's certainly something well worth writing home about.

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