DNA sequencing still a work-in-process, latest patients were Steve Jobs and Christopher Hitchens – Part 1

Steve Jobs in October and Christopher Hitchens, both were great recent losses due to cancer. Despite the new revolutionary solution, called the DNA sequencing, both departed from this world leaving a huge void in the world of technology and literature.

Both Jobs and Hitchens were under treatment by this new technology that helps in slowing down or stopping, in some cases, the growth of tumours caused by cancer cells. However, both had a different view of the DNA tech.

Jobs, helpless to his bold and adventurous nature, was excited about the sequencing technology. He even said to his biographer Walter Isaacson that he might be the first to outrun cancer this way or be among the last to die from it. Sadly, the second of
the two possibility was written in his fate.

Jobs was not only an audacious person but also quite stubborn. He had been rejecting extensive requests from doctors all around the world to treat his pancreatic cancer. His view of curing cancer was through diet. However, cabbages could not save him either.
Had he agreed to the treatment a couple of years earlier, his might have launched the iPhone 4S himself.  However, that was not the case.

How does this new technology works? In a layman’s view, the cancer should be defined first. The body is made of different organs that make up a system like digestive system and muscular system.

The organs are comprised of cells that have DNA sequence. When a cell becomes cancer, its DNA disrupts and shuffles to make up its own growing mechanism, like mutation. Due to the disruptive nature, a part of the organ starts mutating exponentially, hence
causing the organs malfunctioning.

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Posted by Usman Khalid on Dec 17 2011. Filed under Sci-Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry