SPECIAL SECTION: MAN INTO SUPERMAN

The Promise and Peril of the New Genetics

Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.—Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

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