A future of programmable medicine

This piece is featured in Issue 25 of Works in Progress. Subscribe today to get an issue every two months delivered straight to your door.Jacob Witten explains why siRNA will change medicine as we know it.If you want a picture of biomedical research, imagine a boot stamping on a biologist’s face – for decades. The boot is labeled ‘medicinal chemistry’. This should not be taken as an insult to medicinal chemists, who heroically navigate maybe the hardest field in biomedicine.1 Rather, what I mean...