Download One in a Billion: The Story of Nic Volker and the Dawn of Genomic Medicine AudioBook Free
In this landmark medical narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Symbol Johnson and Kathleen Gallagher chronicle the storyline of Nic Volker, the Wisconsin youngster at the guts of an daring discovery in treatments - a full gene sequencing to find the treatment for an in any other case undiagnosable illness. At only 2 yrs old, Nic encounters a searing pain that signs the awakening of a fresh and lethal disease. For years, through false starts off and failed cures, he holds on to life, buoyed up by his mother's brutal drive to get him the care he needs. But when even the world's experts are stumped by Nic's disease, his doctors think of a radical, long-shot plan: a step in to the unknown. Another major scientific frontier, following completion of the People Genome Task, was to figure out how to use our new knowledge to save lots of lives - to bring genomic or customized medicine into reality. It's a quest that is carried out by researchers across the world. But it is only when geneticist Howard Jacob hears about young Nic that the final line finally makes eyesight: It's no longer a race to make background. It's a race to save lots of this boy's life.
