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The breathtaking story of a young boy with a never-before-seen disease, and the doctors who take a bold step into the future of medicine to save him - based on the authors' Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting.In this landmark medical narrative, in the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Mark Johnson and Kathleen Gallagher chronicle the story of Nic Volker, the Wisconsin boy at the center of a daring breakthrough in medicine - a complete gene sequencing to discover the cure for an otherwise undiagnosable illness. At just two years old, Nic experienced a searing pain that signaled the awakening of a new and deadly disease, one that would hurl Nic and his family up against the limits of modern medicine.



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Kathleen Gallagher

Kathleen Gallagher is executive director of the Milwaukee Institute, a non-profit that helps forward-thinking Midwesterners unlock the potential of advanced technologies and high-growth businesses. She was previously a business reporter at the Milwaukee Jour­nal Sentinel, where she won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. Gallagher and Mark Johnson turned their Pulitzer Prize-winning story into a book called "One in a Billion: The Story of Nic Volker and the Dawn of Genomic Medicine." She lives with her husband and two children in Wauwatosa, WI.



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