Please confirm that you would like to log out of Medscape. If you log out, you will be required to enter your username and password the next time you visit. your weekly dose of commentary on a new medical study. I'm Dr F. Perry Wilson of the Yale School of Medicine. Every once in a while, medicine changes in a fundamental way, and we may not realize it while it's happening.
I wasn't around in 1928 when Fleming discovered penicillin; or in 1953 when Watson, Crick, and Franklin characterized the double-helical structure of DNA. But looking at medicine today, there are essentially two places where I think we will see, in retrospect, that we were at a fundamental turning point. One is artificial intelligence, which gets so much attention and hype that I will simply say yes, this will change things, stay tuned. The other is a bit more obscure, but I suspect it may be just as impactful. That other thing is RNA therapeutics — the medicines of the future. I want to start with the idea that many diseases are, fundamentally, a problem of protein