Scientists can now manipulate genes with ease. The results include advances in diagnosis of genetic diseases before birth and the possibility of “gene therapy” in the future
IMAGINE trying to find a needle in a haystack the size of Mount Everest. Impossible? Probably, yet scientists have made giant strides in molecular biology over the past decade enabling them to perform the molecular equivalent of that “impossible” task.
Each cell in our bodies contains all the genetic information to make an entire human being. That information is carried in the genes that make up our chromosomes. The stuff of genes…
