Thanks Blue:
I am holding the opinion that the vine that is DNAG is not withering. We have spread ourselves very thin, but we are rooted in fertile soil. We opted for the big trellis and not the little climbing post. We'll just have to see how sweet the wine is when the harvest is complete and the fermentation runs it's course.
I guess it applies to both. No company before it's time as well as no wine before it's time. Remember too, we don't know what affiliations and "silent aggreements" have been made. Nor should we. If we knew all that is in the offing, we might find our "targetted acquisitions" being priced beyond our piggy bank. Better the management is wheeling and dealing behind closed doors FOR ALL OF US, than letting the few who would monkey wrench DNAG and it's shareholders be aware of any direction the company is looking.
Trace is an expenditure that brought an acredited lab into the DNAG stable. Data that was once proprietary to Trace is now DNAG's. Trace gives DNAG a presence in California near many potential customers for pharmogenic research. Trace and our new employees are world reknown for past works. These minds will be applied to some of the same problems Doctor Frudakis is working on. Maybe even have stumped him. Just a fresh view with a different perspective could break a bottleneck. And vice versa. Trace now has the Troika pulling for Trace.
We know eye color "retinome" required resampling to achieve a useable database. We now also have a 3d facial recognition capability, but integral with that is the skill and knowhow to provide consistent samples for Retinome to be proofed against. Combine the Trace ability to work from miniscule DNA samples. Working with DNAG, much more detail will be available to those programs that highlight forensic work, archeological or otherwise. Now throw in the 3D people and you can start determining chin, nose, eye distance, things that make a face unique and recognizable. Fuzzy gets less fuzzy. Graphic mediums require- well graphical content. We've seen facial reconstructions on those ancient skulls, but let's see DNAG in the mix. Probable skin tone, other attributes, a comingling of disciplines that creates a greater whole. Yes the future can be bright for DNAG, but time is the major enemy. "Death of a Thousand Cuts" or what have you. I guess like some others here I'll just have to keep giving at the blood bank. I don't think DNAG is a vampire. There is just to much in the sun. The part that is hidden, the hole card, is anticipated by many, doubted by many, and prayed for by all. The time may even come again that the bid is passed about the table. I don't know what I'll do then, it depends. But under current circumstances, I've got to hold my cards and hope my "partners in DNAG" draw a much needed ace.
Stakddek
