DNA-DeCoDEd

Over 17 million people are infected with AIDS in just Botswana, Africa itself and over a few million people are infected with some sort of cancer. As of March, 2003 no one has found a curer or even a vaccine to control the havoc these disastourous diseases lay upon people. Is it even possible to accomplish such a feat? If we can get a man on the moon, which is literally out of this world, how hard could it be to cure a couple of diseases? Apparently it’s impossible to do so; or is it? Nancy Gibbs writes an article on how we have come so far in finding cures for diseases as well as many other things due to the discovery made by James Watson and Francis Crick.
What steps are involved in finding a cure? The very first step is usually the hardest, whether it’s taking your very first steps to riding a bike for the first time, or even trying to find a cure for AIDS and cancer. The first step in accomplishing the latter challenge all involves the knowledge of DNA. Fortunately DNA wa...