To the Editor: Re "Awaiting the Genome Payoff" (Business Day, June 15): The disappointment in the rate at which health benefits have resulted from the deciphering of the human genome may be self-inflicted by the scientific community.
Capable of exporting a diverse array of structurally and chemically dissimilar drugs from the cell, deciphering the structural mechanisms that govern the polyspecific substrate recognition of these proteins will likely be crucial for the development of future chemotherapeutics.
We lunch on it with the World at One. Aggregate the deciphering from all sources and you may find that less time was spent unlocking the secrets of the Rosetta Stone.
In this book, there are two futures to be deciphered; and I should warn fans for whom the deciphering from scratch is going to be a prime pleasure that the paragraphs which follow contain some spoilers with regards to the set-up.
The pun has structural equivalents in the rhyme and in word games, which range from crossword puzzles to the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone, the key to Egyptian hieroglyphic.
Android, Apple's iOS and other mobile platforms adopted similar forms of encryption a few years ago but the protection has only recently become complete.The new level of security builds on efforts by hardware- and software-makers to divorce themselves from the ability to decipher or recover users' data from mobile devices.
The information gleaned from deciphering the genetic code is expected to yield new insights into how the human body functions and sometimes goes awry, and it will point the way to new diagnoses and treatments.
In addition, Rosenberg confronts us with a powerful and abstruse prose-poetry, translations from the tough-to-decipher mingled Aramaic-Hebrew of the original, that makes for challenging reading when capsized into English.
