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Fascinating narrative science that explores the next frontier in medicine and genetics through the very personal prism of the children and families gene therapy has touched.Eight-year-old Corey Haas was nearly blind from a hereditary disorder when his sight was restored through a delicate procedure that made medical history. Like something from a science fiction novel, doctors carefully injected viruses bearing healing genes into the DNA of Corey's eyes--a few days later, Corey could see, his sight restored by gene therapy.THE FOREVER FIX is the first book to tell the fascinating story of gene therapy: how it works, the science behind it, how patients (mostly children) have been helped and harmed, and how scientists learned from each trial to get one step closer to its immense promise, the promise of a "forever fix," - a cure that, by fixing problems at their genetic root, does not need further surgery or medication.
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I'm so excited about the thoroughly updated new edition of my short, sweet, and cheap Human Genetics: The Basics. Not a textbook! Just 6 chapters, covering everything genetics and genomics, from health and wellness, biotechnologies such as gene therapy and CRISPR, evolution, human history, and genetic testing. Ideal for families and biotech/pharma companies, and those with general interest in how genetics/genomics will affect us all. COMING IN EARLY DECEMBER Pre-order at https://www.amazon.com/Human-Genetics-Basics-Ricki-Lewis/dp/113866801X/ref=sr_1_19? s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1474318665&sr=1-19&keywords=Ricki Lewis
RICKI LEWIS is a Ph.D. geneticist, journalist, and genetic counselor. The author of one of the most widely used human genetics textbooks in the world (Human Genetics: Concepts and Applications, she's working on the 12th edition) , she has also written the only popular book on gene therapy ("The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It"; St. Martin's Press, 2013) and published thousands of articles. Follow her popular weekly DNA Science blog at Public Library of Science (blog http://blogs.plos.org/dnascience/author/rlewis/) , posts about rare disease families at Rare Disease Reports (http://www.raredr.com/contributor/ricki-lewis-phd) , and contributions to Medscape Medical News. Follow Ricki Lewis on Twitter (@rickilewis)
