Thanks to the molecular biology revolution, it is conceivable that over the next two decades, humanity will cure most monogenic diseases — those caused by a single faulty gene. If the trend of increasing efficacy and specificity of gene editing technologies continues, the “undruggable” genome may one day become “mostly…

I remember having my first serious existential crisis when I was about five or six. It dawned on me that one day I would cease to exist and that seemed really, really sad. What could be sadder than not existing anymore? For a few nights, as I remember it, my…