On Tuesday 09 Jan 2007 10:18 pm, Shyam Visweswaran wrote: > The cool thing would be to come up with a > drug that mimics the SCN9A mutation: then you could remove pain > without removing any other sensory function.
Interestingly this is the exact context in which Dave Long posted this SCN9A business. There was an earlier thread that spoke of "removing fear" from soldiers. I wonder what we would get if you removed both fear and pain.. Oh I know - either a robot or Frankenstein I guess. shiv
