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...already doing better at preventive medicine and at repairing old bodies--dealing with abdominal fat, atherosclerosis, blood pressure, blood sugar, cataracts and so on. U.S. pharmaceutical companies have nearly two dozen Alzheimer's drugs in the works. In the next century, molecular biologists are likely to tinker with more and more of our genetic machinery, in what may be either mankind's worst folly or the most significant software upgrade of the 21st century. (Caveat emptor, users of version 1.0!) Just last month, biologists announced the discovery of mutations that accumulate in aging mitochondria, which are our cells' batteries; maybe...
Maybe that's not exactly the way pills will be dispensed 25 years from now, but you can be sure that at molecular biology's current pace, it will be something like that. By then scientists will have decoded the entire human genome--all 140,000 or so genes that largely say who we are and which of 4,000 diseases our flesh is heir to. They will also have found exactly where common disease-causing errors lie along the genome's long, interlocked chains...
Frederic Golden, a former assistant manager of DISCOVER, is a TIME contributor who has followed the rise of molecular biology...
...those who entered the race was molecular biologist Martin Citron. In 1997, shortly after he moved from Harvard to Amgen, in Thousand Oaks, Calif., he and his team began a long, painstaking elimination process by inserting active human genes, in strings of 100 at a time, into living bacterial cells. When the team found cells making more amyloid protein than might have been expected, it narrowed the strings to 20 genes and repeated the process. Finally, the Amgen team zeroed in on the single gene responsible for producing the extra amyloid. Having found the culprit, the researchers went...
James E. Davis, Senior Lecturer on Chemistry and Chemical Biology and on Molecular and Cellular Biology, says the notes online from his chemistry class contained "two humongous errors." He held up a copy of the Versity notes on his Introduction to the Principles of Chemistry class in one of his lectures recently...