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Life Script: How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine & Enhance Your Health
Life Script How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine Enhance Your Health Author:Nicholas Wade With the decoding of the human genome, researchers can now read the script in which evolution has written the program for the design & operation of the human body. A new generation of medical treatments is at hand. Author Wade has interviewed many of the principal researchers in the field. Here, he describes what the genome means for the health ... more »of present & future generations. For example, someday soon physicians will have access to DNA chips that, from a drop of blood, will screen a person's genes for all the diseases to which he or she may be genetically vulnerable. The medicine of the post-genomic era will be customized for a patient's genetic makeup, providing treatments based on a precise understanding of the mechanism of disease.« less