Opinion Article – “Over 70 years of DNA structure: what it has already told us and what it still hides about the disease” – Raquel Oliveira

Two decades after the sequencing of the first human genome, it is important to recognize both the scope and the limitations of this knowledge.

For decades, DNA was seen as the “instruction manual” for life – a precise code written in four letters. Since the discovery of the double helix structure in 1953 – commemorated on April 25th – biology seemed to reinforce this idea: if we could read this code, we could understand disease. In some cases, this promise has been fulfilled.

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