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Here Is A Human Being: At The Dawn Of Personal Genomics
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 DescriptionDNA technology has already changed our health care, the food we eat, and our criminal justice system. This title reveals information about the experiment's participants and scientists; how the experiment was, is, and can be conducted; and, the profound implications of having an unfiltered view of our hardwired selves for us and for our children. Author descriptionMisha Angrist is an Assistant Professor at the Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy. His doctoral and postdoctoral work was in human genetics and he was formerly a board-eligible genetic counselor. He received an MFA in Writing and Literature from the Bennington Writing Seminars, and his fiction and nonfiction has appeared in numerous literary journals and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He lives in Durham, NC, with his wife and two daughters. |
