Book ID: CBB001450617

The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It (2012)

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Lewis, Ricki (Author)


St. Martin's Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: x + 323 pp.; ill.
Language: English

"Eight-year-old Corey Haas was nearly blind from a hereditary disorder when his sight was restored through a delicate procedure that made medical history. Like something from a science fiction novel, doctors carefully injected viruses bearing healing genes into the DNA of Corey's eyes--a few days later, Corey could see, his sight restored by gene therapy. The Forever Fix is the first book to tell the fascinating story of gene therapy: how it works, the science behind it, how patients (mostly children) have been helped and harmed, and how scientists learned from each trial to get one step closer to its immense promise, the promise of a "forever fix," - a cure that, by fixing problems at their genetic root, does not need further surgery or medication. Told through the voices of the children and families who have been the inspiration, experimental subjects, and successes of genetic science, The Forever Fix is compelling and engaging narrative science that tells explores the future of medicine as well as the families and scientists who are breaking new ground every day"-- The first book to tell the fascinating story of gene therapy: how it works, the science behind it, how patients (mostly children) have been helped and harmed, and how scientists learned from each trial to get one step closer to its immense promise, the promise of a "forever fix," -- a cure that, by fixing problems at their genetic root, does not need further surgery or medication.

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Authors & Contributors
Löwy, Illana
Leeming, William
Trainque, Jarrod
Barbujani, Guido
Heeney, Catherine
Weidman, Nadine M.
Concepts
Human genetics
Medical genetics
Medicine
Genetics
Science and culture
DNA; RNA
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
France
Canada
Institutions
Human Genome Project
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