Comment by spywaregorilla
2 years ago
As I said. Some do look further. Some do not. For the particular niche of genetics research, most of the time we actually don't, and that's fine, because it's not particularly actionable whereas the base layer understanding of a genetic interaction is helpful for things like personalized medicine.
We don't shit on the scientists that decide to stop searching "wait but why" and instead answer higher level questions. Because... obviously that is not always the appropriate thing to do.
I was gonna say, I've been on experiments where we literally just blasted the shit out of genomes to do the knockouts and then grew up the plants and phenotyped them to compare with the knockouts.