
For most of human history, medicine has worked in roughly the same way: something goes wrong with the body, and doctors try to manage the consequences.
You develop high blood pressure, so you take a pill. Your immune system attacks your body, so doctors suppress it. Cancer grows, so physicians cut it out, irradiate it, poison it with chemotherapy, or help the immune system fight it.
Those approaches have saved countless lives.
But medicine is beginning to make a much more ambitious shift.
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