Cracking the DNA code

Published: June 16, 2020, 10:05 a.m.

We hope the world of the future will have less disease and disability thanks to gene and cell therapy. With the ability to manipulate DNA we’re now shaping our own evolution. So how did we crack the DNA code? This is the story of the race to discover the shape of DNA and to understand how our genetic code creates the building blocks of life. And DNA is revealing the million-year story of Homo sapiens and the many other human species who’ve walked the earth.