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 ...

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Real-Time Mutation: The Secret Lives of Superbugs Inside the Human Body

Suhail Ahmed

One of the biggest dangers to contemporary medicine is antibiotic resistance; superbugs are changing faster than we can create new medications. However, if we could monitor these bacterial changes in real time and forecast their next direction before they outmaneuver our treatments? Investigating the genetic battlefield between bacteria and antibiotics as it develops inside human ...