Name: One in a Billion: The Story of Nic Volker and the Dawn of Genomic Medicine (en Inglés)
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Author: Johnson, Mark ; Gallagher, Kathleen
ISBN: 9781451661330

portada One in a Billion: The Story of Nic Volker and the Dawn of Genomic Medicine (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Mark Johnson

Kathleen Gallagher

Editorial

Simon & Schuster

Idioma

Inglés

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.1 x 13.7 x 2.0 cm

Peso

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9781451661330

Categorías

Biografías de científicos y doctores
Historia de la medicina
Genética (no médica)

One in a Billion: The Story of Nic Volker and the Dawn of Genomic Medicine (en Inglés)

Mark Johnson (Autor) · Kathleen Gallagher (Autor) · Simon & Schuster · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "One in a Billion: The Story of Nic Volker and the Dawn of Genomic Medicine (en Inglés)"

"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.