I was reading through a Newsweek that was focused on medical advancements in recent years when I was reminded of an article I read around the time of the last Olympics that covered 'super athletes'. The article talked of a new method of what I'll call 'gene altering' whereas an athlete is injected with a cell altering substance, not steroids, that actually becomes part of the body and is undetectable. This changes the athlete's body in such a way he/she is faster, stronger, quicker, in effect, a super athlete. The article said this procedure was in the works and being used as we speak and we could see super athletes by the next Olympics.
So that got me to wonder, if we can create a substance that actually can create such dramatic change like this, is there a possibility that a substance could be created that would alter DNA? Could we change a man into a woman, or vise-versa, after puberty?Will we see the time when medical science unlocks the code that stops bone growth and allows for the skeletal structure to reform a male physique into female?
It's pretty widely known that soft tissue is changeable past puberty but to alter bone structure? To internally stop beard growth? To internally change one's voice?
I doubt I'll see it, but then again, I remember hearing countless many times it will take centuries to map the human genome.....