• Question: Can DNA be changed to prevent serious diseases?

    Asked by to Jane on 18 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Jane Charlesworth answered on 18 Mar 2014:

      Over time our DNA definitely changes to prevent serious diseases. However I think that at the moment it is unlikely that treatments which changed our DNA would be allowed to be used, because we don’t yet know how different genes in the DNA interact with each other.

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