Gene Therapy

Research Article| February 01 2013 Gene Therapy The Forever Fix – Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It. By Ricki Lewis. 2012. St. Martin’s Press. (ISBN 9780312681906). 323 pp. Paperback. $25.99. Jonathan Morris Jonathan Morris 1Professor of Biology, Middlesex Community College, Middletown, CT 06457 jmorris@mcc.commnet.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The American Biology Teacher (2013) 75 (2): 139. https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2013.75.2.14 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jonathan Morris; Gene Therapy. The American Biology Teacher 1 February 2013; 75 (2): 139. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2013.75.2.14 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe American Biology Teacher Search Unleashing the power of nuclear energy, the miracle of antibiotic cures, the amazing ability to travel in air and space – do any of these technological advances from the last century, or any of the many other technologies humans have introduced, come close to the power of gene therapy, whereby we can, for the first time, rewrite our own genetic code? Humans are on the brink of being able to repair and redesign ourselves at the most basic level of our genes. Ricki Lewis’s The Forever Fix chronicles the fits and starts of this most powerful and extraordinary new ability humans have achieved. As we have come to expect from Lewis, she educates us about the earliest origins of gene therapy by weaving a meaningful true story of how science, technology, and human spirit all come together to create something amazing. We learn how heroic patients, their families and friends,... You do not currently have access to this content.