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Jonathan Weiner is the Pulitzer-prizewinning author of The Beak of the Finch. His most recent book is Time, Love, Memory
Senior writer Jeffrey Kluger's latest book, about moons, is called Journey Beyond Selene
This new view has sparked innovations that will manage the process and keep it from killing large numbers of people. "We are going to see a real shift from diagnosis and treatment to prediction and prevention," declares California surgeon Susan Love, author of Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book. Indeed, if all goes well with current clinical trials, women at high risk for breast cancer will soon be able to be screened with a device that removes a sample of breast cells through the nipple. If any cells show signs of the early mutations that lead to cancer, doctors...
Once cloning loses its stigma, the urge to tinker with the genes of offspring may not be far behind. As Cambridge molecular biologist Graeme Mitchison says, "We can all be beautiful--no baldness, no wimps with glasses, no knobby knees." Olivia Judson, author of a forthcoming book called Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice for All Creation, begs to differ: "If there is such hostility to genetically modified soya, it doesn't bode well for genetically modified people...
Matt Ridley is the author of The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature. His newest book, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, is due out in February