Who’s Afraid Of The Dark?
Not the glow-in-the-dark bald guy! This isn’t science fiction, just cutting edge science. Check out this article from Fast Company on gene-therapy (GT). An exerpt:
In the course of evaluating a GT baldness cure, San Diego researcher Robert Hoffman and his colleagues developed a test using a gene for a green fluorescent protein–only to discover they’d inadvertently found a way to make human skin or hair glow under black light, a technique that could be used on a tattoo or anywhere else on a person’s body, temporarily or permanently. (link)
With more than 800 clinical gene-therapy trials already approved, and a market predicted to reach $6.5 billion by 2001, the future is now.
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