cell not a pill

" What number or fraction of reactions can actually be targeted by the entire pharmacopeia - all of medicinal chemistry? That number is 250 out of a Million. The rest is chemical darkness. In other words, 0.025 percent of all chemical reactions in your body are actually targetable by this lock-and-key mechanism "

Current medical treatment boils down to six words: Have disease, take pill, kill something.

But physician Siddhartha Mukherjee  ( Who is a  is a Oncologist and researcher. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University who Studied biology at Stanford University, obtained a D.Phil. from University of Oxford, and an M.D. from Harvard University) points to a future of medicine that will transform the way we heal.

He received the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.

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Bill Gates had a chance to chat with author Siddhartha Mukherjee about his book "The Gene: An Intimate History."  Bill and Melinda Gates foundation are backing companies like CureVac and Moderna on messenger RNA approaches for vaccine and drug development, which have the potential to help us tackle cancer. This approach is also intriguing as a potential immunological intervention for HIV, malaria, flu and the Zika virus.