Brave New Drugs
The world is understandably giddy, and a bit apprehensive, about this whole adventure. It conjures a future in which doctors use handy strands of DNA to correct hereditary defects, cure chronic illnesses, even enhance people’s IQs. Those days are still a long way off, but gene transplantation is only one example of how genetic science is transforming medicine. While we await the advent of designer humans, more and more diseases will be linked to quirks in the chromosomes....