Blood Matters: From Brca1 to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene by Masha Gessen

Blood Matters: From Brca1 to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene

Masha Gessen

321 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction health memoir science challenging medium-paced
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Masha Gessen discovered through genetic testing that she had the dreaded BRCA1 genetic mutation--the same mutation made famous recently by Angelina Jolie, which predisposes women to ovarian and breast cancer. As Gessen wrestled with a wrenching pe...

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