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> In the latest version, the company tweaked the genetic code of the nematodes so that they would swim away from pancreatic cancer samples. Hirotsu Bio started with pancreatic cancer due to its difficulty in diagnosis and speed of progression.

I'm kinda amazed that we are able to change the genetic code of the organisms to make them do something

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Yeah this is definitely one of the coolest developments I've read about.

My daughter is studying biotech at university. While I was on the cutting edge for proliferation of computing, she's there on biotech. What an exciting future of discoveries and invention she has ahead of her. We're all now stuck on reinventing shitty web frameworks in nodejs for the 11th time.

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