Some people who read headlines like that think that genes have gone off and developed their own economy. Others think the new field of genomics will lead to a cure for Aunt Edna's breast cancer in a matter of years. Neither is true.
Genomics is certainly one of the newest ways to start looking for drugs.
But some researchers say the new field could actually be stopping up the route to drugs. Wired News delivered to your inbox or hand-held device. Researchers simply have tons of new information to work with and therefore need to invest in new technologies to process it. Time is money, and investing takes time. That doesn't mean, however, that genomics is a bad way to look for drugs.