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Medical Forum / General / General / June 2004'Indian doctor duo make DNA horoscopes at birth'
Indian doctor duo make DNA horoscopes at birth ANI Trivandrum Wednesday, June 23, 2004 at 8:58:14 PM IST A doctor duo from Trivandrum have developed a technique to map the DNA sequencing of human beings so as to predict their future tendencies and also help fight diseases. Ajit Kumar and Arun Kumar, both genetic experts from the city's main state-run hospitals, have developed the "Nano Geneseq Chip", which analyses the entire future genetic proposition of a human at birth itself. In layman terms the computer can, to almost 100 percent accuracy, predict how a child will grow-right from its height, colour and other physical attributes to his eating habits and even romantic tendencies. Named 'NANOGENESEQ', the chip analyses the DNA samples of newborns, taken either from blood, spinal cord or saliva, effectively making a 'genetic horoscope' of the baby. "This chip is a great miracle and it will be a miracle for medical science, in fact in every areas like HIV, genetic areas and cancer. Our main aim is to bring out a genital gene card. By birth of a baby, one can analyse the DNA and sort out diseases that may occur during lifespan," Ajit Kumar, the man behind the miracle discovery, said. Needless to say, the medical world is excited about the young doctors' findings which will revolutionise the very concept of health care in the world. Doctors say with the genetic layout at their disposal, they would be able to predict and treat a range of disorders, most importanty HIV/AIDS and cancer. "It will be highly useful in diagnosing critical DNA segments which can be amplified so that it is useful to develop noval drugs used to treat diseases like HIV, cancer and other genetic disorders," Lohithananda Swami, Director of Ramakrishna hospital, said. Kumar and Swami's invention has received praise from all over the world including the U.S. President George W.Bush, had sent them a letter of felicitation. The young doctors have also secured the patent rights for their discovery and the product will be ready for commercialization in another two to three months after slight fine- tuning. The duo are in advanced negotiations with U.S-based nano-tech majors to globally commercialize the product through a multi-million dollar invested collaborative research and development centre and to start a nano tech training institute, possibly the first of its kind in South East Asia. Nanogeneseq chip is also used in computer chip industries, holographic movie camera, industries, cell phones etc. It is about 200 times more powerful than the current analyzer. 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The contents of this post may not have been authored by, and do not necessarily represent the opinion of the poster. The contents are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works. o If you send private e-mail to me, it will likely not be read, considered or answered if it does not contain your full legal name, current e-mail and postal addresses, and live-voice telephone number. o Posted for information and discussion. Views expressed by others are not necessarily those of the poster. > Indian doctor duo make DNA horoscopes at birth > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > or saliva, effectively making a > 'genetic horoscope' of the baby. I think you've properly qualfied this "breakthrough" with the "horroscope" reference. I found more information about this miracle, which stated that the procedure is only "almost 100% accurate" when done while the sun shines on Uranus. "Dr. Jai Maharaj" <usenet@mantra.com> wrote in message news: > Indian doctor duo make DNA horoscopes at birth < snip 500 lines of bullshit > Let us know when they win a Nobel. moo > "Dr. Jai Maharaj" <usenet@mantra.com> wrote in message news: > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > moo COMMENT: This whole nonsensical thing feeds into the general public perception that your DNA somehow is your medical destiny, something we already know from identical twin studies is baloney. Genetics explain about a third of the variability in human life expectancy in developed Western countries like Denmark; no more. I had this truth hammered into me back in the days when I used to run aging studies on genetically identical inbred mice, all housed in the same room, and all fed the same amount of the same diet. And found that they died of range of different things and at different ages, with the 80% survival and the 20% survival points coming at perhaps 26 and 40 months, with a mean of 33 months. Some got lymphoma, some hepatoma, some apparently died of infections. Some got spinal sentosis before the end, and some didn't. All that's a pretty good lession that there's a lot of random chance (ie stochastic factors) in mortality and "aging". The average set of non-identical human twins of the same sex dies within a mean of about 7 years of each other. For identical twins, the figure's about 5 years. I think if you asked the general public to guess, they'd probably say about 5 weeks, and guess that twins usually die in old age of the same thing. Which they don't. For stroke, if your identical twin died of stroke, your chance of dying of stroke goes up by only a factor of 2. That means if you identical twin dies of stroke, your chance of dying of a stroke goes from maybe 5% to maybe 10% or so. Not impressive. You'll never make money on that kind of predictiveness. For cancer, it's hard to show that if one non-identical twin dies of cancer, that this increases the chances of the other to die of cancer at all. For identical twins, the chance of one twin dying of cancer goes up by a mere 40% or so, if the other twin does. But the correlations in the KIND of cancer (cancer site) are only modest, with typical risk ratios going up by a couple of times. You can influence cancer that much by diet and exercise, and far more by smoking. For heart disease, the correlations between twins are by far the most impressive for early disease. If your identical twin died early from heart disease, your chances go up by a factor of 8 or more. That's not destiny, but it's still pretty large. However, most people don't die of heart disease when young (in their fifies) but much later, and by that time, if your twin died of heart disease, your own chances are scarcesly more than they would have been without the twin. So your particular DNA isn't doing much by the time you hit your 70's. All in all genetics explains maybe 50 to 55% of all heart disease. The rest is due to chance and behavior (smoking, saturated fat eating, etc). Bottom line: your DNA isn't your longevity destiny. It's only a third of it. The rest, you have some control over. Steve |
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