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Professor William S. Blau, Emeritus Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, belongs to an exceedingly small cohort of mainstream researchers willing to address what may prove humanity’s most consequential challenge: the gradual deterioration of our genetic inheritance. While countless scientists celebrate medical progress and the technological conquest of disease, Blau stands nearly alone in examining the troubling paradox at the heart of modern medicine. The interventions that enhance individual well-being may be quietly undermining the genetic integrity of our species. (more…)