Understanding the Vocabulary of Genetics

We are often compared to computers, our genome seen as a fixed program written by heredity. Yet epigenetics is challenging that view, revealing that what is innate is not necessarily inevitable.

The rules of evolution and health are being rewritten before our eyes. With tools like CRISPR-Cas9, often described as “molecular scissors” capable of cutting and editing DNA, the human of tomorrow may no longer be shaped by chance alone, but by design.