A wonderful new book arrived this month that I highly recommend to readers! Misha Angrist composed Here Is A Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics, not only chronicling the experience of having his genome sequenced, but also introducing many fascinating characters in this engaging narrative about the relationship between us and our DNA. Misha is assistant professor at Duke's Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy and I was fortunate to get to know him while working at the university. (For a sense of what Misha's up to, check out this interview featured in the News & Observer.) As one of the first ten individuals to participate in George Church's Personal Genome Project, his book explores the broad implications of what personal genomics means in our society while providing the firsthand account of his experience. From Amazon:
In 2007, Misha Angrist became the fourth subject in the Personal Genome ...
