Pratyantar dasa of Aswini

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Hare Rama Krsna ||Dear Jyotishi,According to the Saptarishi dasa, the world is about to enter Aswini pratyantar dasa (2009-2019). This is supposed to bring new discoveries in medicine as it is associated with the celestial physicians according to the new book Brhat Nakshatra by Pandit Sanjay Rath. Below is an interesting news article.Kind regards,MichalScientists reported decoding the entire genetics of a cancer cell. They

did it by analyzing the cells of a woman with leukemia, reports CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook.

 

"This is a landmark, this is the first time we've had the complete

DNA instruction book, of a cancer cell," said Dr. Francis Collins, the

former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute.

Richard Wilson, a Ph.D. at the Washington University School of

Medicine said: "We found 10 changes; 10 mutations in her tumor genome

that may very well be related to her disease."

 

This may revolutionize the most advanced type of cancer treatments, called targeted therapies.

Right now, targeted therapy involves attacking cancer cells, but

not normal cells. For example, the drug Herceptin works by selectively

attacking a receptor found on the surface of breast cancer cells.

 

In the patient with leukemia, scientists went past the surface of

the cell, all the way to the center - or nucleus - and examined the

DNA, the blueprint for the entire body. By comparing DNA from the

patient's cancerous blood cells with DNA from her own normal skin, the

researchers found changes present in genes of her leukemia, but not in

the genes of her skin.

 

"What's new here is that this entire encyclopedia of a cancer cell,

which is 400 Encylopedia Britannicas lined up end to end, has actually

been read out for the first time for a particular leukemia," Collins

said.

 

"The ultimate hope is that you would look at someone's DNA and

you'd say 'I know how to treat you based what I found in your genes,'"

Wilson said. "'And why you are different than the patient I saw with

the same disease an hour ago.'"

 

The hope of truly personalized medicine is what drove researchers to study the inner-workings of cells.

 

"Cancer is a disease of the DNA, and we need to understand what

goes wrong at the level of DNA, before we can really get good at

understanding, diagnosing, and better treating the disease," Wilson

said.

 

"It will result in a revolution in medicine that I believe will only be matched by the discovery of antibiotics," Collins said.

 

It took about seven years and $300 million to sequence the first

human genome. Over the next few years, it's predicted to take only

minutes and cost less than $1,000.

 

For now, it's still a research tool, and cancer patients shouldn't

expect immediate treatments. But doctors hope it will have real-life

applications within the decade.

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