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: there is no problem. But at times, it makes mistakes in cases of mutation, which may lead to some diseases. We need to know how these mistakes take place and how they are corrected. We are working on these aspects.
Do you mean that many of the diseases can be cured if the disorder in the mechanism is corrected?
Yes, particularly those based on genetic disorders. Not only that, once you know the genetic make up of an individual, the right type of medicine can be prescribed. Chromosomes are collectively called the genome. Human beings respond differently to different drugs. We can soon unravel the mystery of human evolution. If future genetic studies are taken up at a cost of $1,000 per person, it can be completed within five years.
Your father received the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1959. How were you inspired?
I do not honestly believe there is any connection. The only thing I can say is that I might have inherited genes from him. I have always been an admirer of my father’s work and that of many others preceding me. My father’s work was for the discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of DNA. Along with Severo Ochoa of New York University, my father was awarded the Nobel Prize. His primary research interests were in biochemistry, especially enzyme chemistry, the synthesis of DNA and studying the nucleic acids, which control heredity in animals, plants, bacteria and viruses. My work was to unravel the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription in which enzymes give voice to DNA by copying it into RNA molecules that acts as templates for protein in organisms—from yeast to humans....
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