by Lone Frank (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 326
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 25 May 2011
ISBN 10: 1851689141
ISBN 13: 9781851689149
Book Overview: I haven't seen Lone Frank's entire genome, but it's obvious from the first page of My Beautiful Genome that she's got the SKFF2 gene (Sharp as a Knife and Friggin' Funny, Too). No decoding needed here: I love this book. Mary Roach Before I read My Beautiful Genome I could not decide if I would ever get my genome analyzed, but now I'm sending in my spit ASAP. Lone Frank is one of the surest science writers I've ever read. She not only explains with great clarity the technical twists and turns of the science behind unraveling the double helix, she does so in such a page-turning, conversational style that once I started, I couldn't stop. Read this book-your genetic future may depend on it. Michael Shermer - New York Times bestselling author of The Believing Brain and columnist, Scientific Provocative, wryly humorous, illuminating, deeply personal - if you want to know more about the world of consumer genetics, into which we appear to be unstoppably heading, this is the book for you. Frank Ryan As Lone Frank compellingly argues, the advent of 'personal genomics' promises to be as socially and philosophically transformative in the next twenty years as 'personal computing' was in the last twenty. My Beautiful Genome probes and explores the critical questions and unexpected nuances this new science raises about who exactly we are-as a species, and as individuals. Brian Christian - author of The Most Human Human
Prizes: Shortlisted for Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012.