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ONE IN A BILLION
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| By: |
Kathleen Gallagher |
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Electronic book text |
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£17.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1451661347 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781451661347 |
| Publisher: |
SIMON & SCHUSTER |
| Pub. date: |
17 May, 2016 |
| Synopsis: |
"A riveting scientific detective story" (The Washington Post) by two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists who chronicle a young Wisconsin boy with a never-before-seen disease and the doctors who save his life by taking a new step into the future of medicine.In this landmark medical narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Mark Johnson and Kathleen Gallagher share the story of Nic Volker, the first patient to be saved by a bold breakthrough in medicine-a complete gene sequencing, aimed at finding the cause of an otherwise undiagnosable illness. At just two years old, Nic experienced a brief flicker of pain that signaled the awakening of a new and deadly disease, one that would hurl him and his family into a harrowing journey in search for a lifesaving cure. After his symptoms stump every practitioner, it becomes clear that Nic's is a one in a billion case, a disease that no one has ever seen before. As Nic and his family search for answers, the scientific community is racing to bring about the next revolution in medicine-translating results from the Human Genome Project to treatments for actual patients. At the forefront is the brilliant geneticist Howard Jacob, who starts a lab at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Then Nic's head physician reaches out to Jacob with an unprecedented of idea. A disease like Nic's is likely due to a rare mutation: if they could sequence his genes to try to find the mutation, the boy might live. Jacob doesn't know if he can do it; Nic's doctors don't know if it will even work; and no one knows what else might lie in the Pandora's Box of Nic's genome. But they decide to try-and in doing so, they step into a new era of medicine. One in a Billion is "a compelling story of a modern medical miracle-the first instance of personalized medicine" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) and the birth of a scientific revolution. |
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index, notes |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Simon & Schuster |
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Non-returnable |
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