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RE: How does protein synthesis occur?
I'm thinking this sort of knowledge might be the first step towards designing personalized medicine, medicine designed for individuals instead of entire populations. I'm not an expert by any means, so I may be way off.
This is certainly part of it. By being able to understand protein synthesis and sequence the genome of each individual we are able to work out what proteins each person will be synthesising. By comparing this DNA sequence against other known sequences, we can work of if there are any discrepancies that could be causing diseases.
This is really fascinating stuff. I really look forward to a future where medicine is designed to fit individuals. That way they'll be a lot more efficient, and presumably have a lot less side effects.