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Antonio Regalado

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Illustrations by
Sèbastien Thibault

One day, gene therapy may help with the rarest of diseases. Some parents aren't waiting.

Then there's illness

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Now it's about money. Whatever ails you, there's a growing chance we can cure it—for a price. Who can pay? And should they? If some people can excise genetic disease from their bloodlines, will we end up creating two human races, one sick and one healthy? Or are both the promise and the perils of genomic medicine being wildly overhyped?

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