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quoting the article: > "But if all life, including cancer cells, continues to exploit niches, no solutions from technologists will be final.

It's plausible that we may eventually have such a good understanding of biological processes, and such powerful technology, that it'll be straightforwards for us to adapt treatments to new exploits.

Obviously no one can know for sure if this will or won't be possible, nor, if it will be possible, how far in the future it will be.

(Note: just because some technological ability seems really distant from our current capabilities does not make it valid to assume that it could only be something possible really distant in the future. We only need to look at the history of technology to see such assumptions can't be made).




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