SPECIAL
ALL ABOUT YOUR DNA
UNLOCKING THE SECRETS OF OUR GENETIC CODE WILL MAKE US MASTERS OF OUR OWN BIOLOGY
Words by Laura Mears
DNA is one of the greatest inventions of the natural world. It’s a chemical library, capable of storing vast quantities of data for billions of years. Passed from one generation to the next, this microscopic structure is the engine of evolution. Every living creature uses DNA as its instruction manual. The genes contained within it tell cells how to make the proteins they need to survive, grow and reproduce.