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The Genome Odyssey - Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them (Hardcover)
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The Genome Odyssey - Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them (Hardcover)
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Discovery Miles 3 150
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In The Genome Odyssey, Dr. Euan Ashley, Stanford professor of medicine
and genetics, brings the breakthroughs of precision medicine to vivid
life through the real diagnostic journeys of his patients and the
tireless efforts of his fellow doctors and scientists as they hunt to
prevent, predict, and beat disease.
Since the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, the price of
genome sequencing has dropped at a staggering rate. It’s as if the
price of a Ferrari went from $350,000 to a mere forty cents. Through
breakthroughs made by Dr. Ashley’s team at Stanford and other dedicated
groups around the world, analyzing the human genome has decreased from
a heroic multibillion dollar effort to a single clinical test costing
less than $1,000.
For the first time we have within our grasp the ability to predict our
genetic future, to diagnose and prevent disease before it begins, and
to decode what it really means to be human.
In The Genome Odyssey, Dr. Ashley details the medicine behind genome
sequencing with clarity and accessibility. More than that, with passion
for his subject and compassion for his patients, he introduces readers
to the dynamic group of researchers and doctor detectives who hunt for
answers, and to the pioneering patients who open up their lives to the
medical community during their search for diagnoses and cures.
He describes how he led the team that was the first to analyze and
interpret a complete human genome, how they broke genome speed records
to diagnose and treat a newborn baby girl whose heart stopped five
times on the first day of her life, and how they found a boy with
tumors growing inside his heart and traced the cause to a missing piece
of his genome.
These patients inspire Dr. Ashley and his team as they work to expand
the boundaries of our medical capabilities and to envision a future
where genome sequencing is available for all, where medicine can be
tailored to treat specific diseases and to decode pathogens like
viruses at the genomic level, and where our medical system as we know
it has been completely revolutionized.
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