These discoveries may seem to belong to completely different worlds. One edits DNA, another targets a viral infection, some change cholesterol biology, while others remove a cancer-related protein and act on several metabolic pathways at once.
Studies have found that genes significantly impact athletic ability and influence bodily features. So far, almost 200 polymorphisms linked with variations in sport performances have been identified.
For a long time, scientists believed that much of our DNA was just biologically static, i.e., sequences that didn’t code for anything meaningful. These...
