There is some speculation that nanorobotics could lead to a cure for autism by the year 2023 when governments and the private sector (mainly Google) will pump in funding into autism research in order to reduce unemployment rates amongst skilled workers. Dr. Scherer and his team recently discovered a link between the behavior of certain sets of genes and developmental problems that mirror what they’ve seen in autism. With “large-scale genome sequencing,” researchers hope to come closer to a cure. This $50 million project could change how illnesses are approached in this century. A genome contains almost 25,000 genes. That’s a wealth of information to decode, but it comes at a cost—of space, each genome taking up “about 100 gigabytes of storage.”
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