Abstract

The In the past couple of years, the field of medicine has overcome huge scientific challenges to showcase advances in gene therapy. One of the most significant of these is CRISPR technology that enables the manipulation of one’s DNA to cure genetic disorders. However, its use has put forward an ethical debate because of the uncertainty surrounding the effects it poses once genes are permanently edited.  A lesser-known brother of DNA, RNA might help avert this dilemma. It was long thought that RNA biochemistry was too complex to understand, making most scientists stay clear of it, but current technology and circumstances have called for scientists to delve back into RNA research to develop medical approaches that have the potential to change the landscape of future medicine. A lesser-known brother of DNA, RNA might help avert this dilemma. It was long thought that RNA biochemistry was too complex to understand, making most scientists stay clear of it, but current technology and circumstances have called for scientists to delve back into RNA research to develop medical approaches that have the potential to change the landscape of future medicine.