Articles for tag: Bioethics, CRISPR, DiseasePrevention, GeneticEngineering, Genomics

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Could Human DNA Be Engineered to Resist All Viruses?

Suhail Ahmed

A grand, unsettling question is quietly moving from science fiction into lab conversations: could we rewrite human DNA so viruses simply can’t take hold? The idea landed in my inbox after yet another season of respiratory bugs, and it felt both audacious and strangely inevitable. We’ve learned to design vaccines in weeks and read genomes ...