ABSTRACT
The year 2003 was celebrated as the culmination of a halfcentury of discoveries regarding the structural aspects of DNA. Since the modern era of genetics got underway in 1953, the field of molecular therapy and recombinant DNA technology has made great strides and offers humanity immense potential in both the treatment of numerous diseases that are currently untreatable and the more effective treatment-free of side effects-of treatable diseases whose treatments, nevertheless, give rise to secondary and adverse outcomes.
