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My Beautiful Genome: Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time

My Beautiful Genome: Exposing Our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time

by Lone Frank (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

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Synopsis

Internationally acclaimed science writer Lone Frank swabs up her DNA to provide the first truly intimate account of the new science of consumer-led genomics. She challenges the business mavericks intent on mapping every baby's genome, ponders the consequences of biological fortune-telling, and prods the psychologists who hope to uncover just how much or how little our environment will matter in the new genetic century - a quest made all the more gripping as Frank considers her family's and her own struggles with depression.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 01 Sep 2011
ISBN 10: 1851688331
ISBN 13: 9781851688333
Prizes: Shortlisted for Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012.

Media Reviews
Review Source: Publishers WeeklyReview Date: 6 June 2011Review Content: A probing biological memoir... Refreshing [and] wonderfully poetic.
Review Source: Publishers Weekly Review Date: 6 June 2011 Review Content: A probing biological memoir... Refreshing [and] wonderfully poetic.
Author Bio
Lone Frank is the author of The Neurotourist: Postcards from the Edge of Brain Science (ISBN 9781851687961). She holds a PhD in neurobiology and was previously a research scientist in the biotechnology industry. An award-winning science journalist and Danish TV presenter, she has written for such publications as Scientific American, Science, and Nature Biotechnology.