Mark Bedau of Reed College in Oregon says Mister Venter's work marks an important step over traditional genetic engineering of individual genes.

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Their research, published in Nature Biotechnology, represents an interesting step forward in genetic engineering.

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Well, now insect geneticists at Johns Hopkins University have come up with a modest step toward a genetic solution.

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That will be the next step: using genetic tests and other methods of separating those patients who will be helped from those who will not.

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