Biological Hacking in Modern Medicine

Modern medicine is basically biological hacking on a massive scale. It is wild that

the same science used to build muscle with steroids is used to nuke tumors with chemotherapy.

Cancer drugs work by attacking DNA to stop cells from multiplying, sometimes using

compounds related to nitrogen mustard. On the flip side, we have tranquilizers that sedate your

brain by blocking specific receptors to force you to chill out. Scientists are now

using combinatorial chemistry to synthesize millions of these molecular keys at once just to see

what unlocks a cure. It turns out your body is just a chemistry set waiting to be balanced.