It should be possible to improve our immunity against viruses and cancer..
Learning how to read DNA, the blueprint for life, has revolutionised science and medicine.
It gave us new ways to intervene in disease, a deeper understanding of evolution and relatedness and the potential to introduce modifications in humans, animals and plants.
Now a group of US scientists argue it is time to move on from just reading an existing genome, to writing the genetic code…
Source: Dick Ahlstrom: the genetically modified human – has its time come?