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The Human Genome Project

June 13th, 2010

With reference to the NY Times “failure” of the human genome project. As a biologist who’s literature review for dissertation been preaching & teaching systems-level cognizance for 30 years, why am I NOT surprised. This simply hearkens back to the age-old debate about reductionist biomedicine. Single genes mean almost nothing within the context of the hierarchy of multiply fed-back information-processing networks within the organism: the genetic network, the network of \”lunch-pail metabolism,\” of signal transduction, of multiplexed signaling among cells, and so on and so on. Until we get real and start teaching biology as information science, the uninformed populace — presidents and legislators inclusive — will continue to waste our tax dollars on reductionist enterprises that promise far more than they will ever be able to deliver; the problem is philosophical in scope.

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