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"Now look, I've told you a lot of details here. I've told you a lot of details partly because I lived through all this. And this actually is roughly the boundaries of my own scientific career today. But I told you a lot of details because there's something important to learn about this, which is very hard to learn in an introductory biology course. Most introductory biology courses, you learn about what we know today. A lot of the reason I've tried to talk about the history is because I want you to get a sense of the pace of change. Because it isn't going to stop. That's the important thing. It's one thing to get a point estimate of our current knowledge. It's much more interesting to know the derivative of knowledge, the rate of change of knowledge. This is the rate of change of knowledge. We went roughly from the mid-1980s, where this idea had been floated, and painfully, Gusella was able to find markers linked to Huntington's disease on chromosome 4, the tip of chromosome 4. And it took 10 years to get that genome. True, it's a very intricate genome. I won't tell you about it. But everybody knew we had to have a Human Genome Project. And we labored for a decade to get a Human Genome Project. But once we had one reference sequence, we could build on that reference sequence as many we wanted. And then the technology came along, and we went from radioactive sequencing to fluorescent sequencing to now this massively parallel sequencing on physical slides like that, by optical methods. It isn't going to stop. That is what makes biology so cool. So that's it for today. [APPLAUSE] The improvements in DNA sequencing technology over the last decade are simply mind blowing. " These are some of my classmates in MITx: 7.00x Introduction to Biology, along with many others in the virtual world. I think we are all part of two revoutions: understanding biology and opening up learning to the world - transcending space and time. I am in MITx: 7.00x Introduction to Biology - The Secret of Life, taught by Professor Eric Lander of MIT. It has been a remarkable class, and a great supplement to the on-campus cell biology class I have been taking concurrently. This class is one of many offered through edX MITx700_2013Class |
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| Author | brewbooks from near Seattle, USA |
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