The Remedy for Genes

V. V. Vlasov

Physicians have always dreamed of substances that would act on particular genes, i. e., on the root of many diseases. Indeed, such substances make it possible to create drugs, actual “magic bullets”, capable of influencing the hereditary material of various infectious agents without any harm to the human body and inhibiting the activity of oncogenes responsible for malignant cell growth. The creation of such substances that would influence the genetic material in a directed manner is one of the main challenges in molecular bio logy, because they will allow the gene functions to be studied directly and, eventually, to be controlled.

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