The last place you need a BSOD...

An interesting video was recently published by Science. One part in particular caught my attention, however. One of the scientists mentions how the central dogma of science (DNA -> RNA -> protein) is becoming more complex by virtue of the fact that we are now discovering that the information is not as one-way as we thought. This got me to thinking (which can be dangerous): is the nucleus (or nucleoid, for us microbiologists) an evolutionary version of a hard drive? It would appear that the chromosome is not read-only, but rather read/write. Understanding the "write" functions better may even be the key to combating some of the nasty gene-oriented diseases such as cancer. Cancer cells are essentially cells that have lost the ability to control its replication. Maybe by sending the right command to the cell we could force the cell to perform a "soft reset" before it gets out of control.

I realize that controlling cancer is much, much more complicated than sending a simple command, I'm just wondering if this could be the next big biotech strategy...

(I think I may have just stumbled onto the subject of a future story project, as if I didn't already have enough on my plate already)