Genetics

Glib catch phrases like “better off together” tend to ring hollow when politicians say them. But in at least one arena, we really are better off together, and that’s when it comes to crowdsourced genetics studies. In testimony to this, a new research effort carried out by the drug titan Pfizer …

Right now, the problems with DNA have nothing to do with DNA. The molecule itself, deoxyribonucleic acid, is extremely well characterized at this point. We can read it, write it, and manipulate it. We can edit it in living cells, and create alternate versions of it with special properties we …