The number of illegal internet pharmacies selling prescription-only medicines without a prescription is increasing. Large quantities of drugs are dispensed, making drugs of abuse readily available, and further risks are posed by counterfeit medication. Urgent national and international action is required to stop further proliferation of illegal pharmacies.

One of the curious features of Darwinian Evolution is that it requires errors to be made during genome replication. Otherwise, beneficial mutations could not occur and adaptation would arrest. Not surprisingly, however, random DNA copy errors usually do not lead to improvement—most mutations are deleterious or have little effect (1). Because, as far as we know, evolution has not found a way to ...