Medical research
Remember those school lessons you got on human genetics? How inherited traits are passed from your forebears via information stored in DNA spooled tightly in chromosomes? Remember hearing that such traits were unalterable, such as a family history of cancer, diabetes, obesity, or high blood pressure? Remember also hearing that on the plus side, negative behaviors, such as overeating, during your life are not traits stored in your genes and passed to your children?
Think again. The following is an article on epigenetics, a blisteringly new field of medical research that studies the effects of modern-day living and current pharmaceutical agents on the human genome. The eventual hope? That doctors will be able to entirely pre-empt disease by writing your perceived weakness to it straight out of your genes.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi112.html
It's news like this that really makes me consider medicine as a profession. This stuff's just cool. I'll also confess I read as much by Bill Sardi as I can. Would that this man were my doctor!
Think again. The following is an article on epigenetics, a blisteringly new field of medical research that studies the effects of modern-day living and current pharmaceutical agents on the human genome. The eventual hope? That doctors will be able to entirely pre-empt disease by writing your perceived weakness to it straight out of your genes.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/sardi/sardi112.html
It's news like this that really makes me consider medicine as a profession. This stuff's just cool. I'll also confess I read as much by Bill Sardi as I can. Would that this man were my doctor!