The Genome Odyssey: Medical Mysteries and the Incredible Quest to Solve Them By: Euan Angus Ashley [Audiobook]

Author: Dr. Euan Angus Ashley
Narrated by: Dr. Euan Angus Ashley

This program is read by the author.

In The Genome Odyssey, Dr. Euan Ashley, Stanford professor of medicine and genetics, brings the breakthroughs of precision medicine to vivid life through the real diagnostic journeys of his patients and the tireless efforts of his fellow doctors and scientists as they hunt to prevent, predict, and beat disease.

Since the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, the price of genome sequencing has dropped at a staggering rate. It’s as if the price of a Ferrari went from $350,000 to a mere 40 cents. Through breakthroughs made by Dr. Ashley’s team at Stanford and other dedicated groups around the world, analyzing the human genome has decreased from a heroic multibillion dollar effort to a single clinical test costing less than $1,000.

For the first time we have within our grasp the ability to predict our genetic future, to diagnose and prevent disease before it begins, and to decode what it really means to be human.

In The Genome Odyssey, Dr. Ashley details the medicine behind genome sequencing with clarity and accessibility. More than that, with passion for his subject and compassion for his patients, he introduces listeners to the dynamic group of researchers and doctor detectives who hunt for answers, and to the pioneering patients who open up their lives to the medical community during their search for diagnoses and cures.

He describes how he led the team that was the first to analyze and interpret a complete human genome, how they broke genome speed records to diagnose and treat a newborn baby girl whose heart stopped five times on the first day of her life, and how they found a boy with tumors growing inside his heart and traced the cause to a missing piece of his genome.

These patients inspire Dr. Ashley and his team as they work to expand the boundaries of our medical capabilities and to envision a future where genome sequencing is available for all, where medicine can be tailored to treat specific diseases and to decode pathogens like viruses at the genomic level, and where our medical system as we know it has been completely revolutionized. 

A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books

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208K	00 - Intro & Dedication.mp3
6.8M	01 - Preface.mp3
16M	02 - Part I - The Early Genomes, 1. Patient Zero.mp3
20M	03 - 2. Team of Teams.mp3
7.5M	04 - 3. Once Removed.mp3
6.5M	05 - 4. Genome Illumination.mp3
4.7M	06 - 5. First Family.mp3
9.4M	07 - 6. Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo.mp3
13M	08 - 7. Starting Up, Reaching Out.mp3
11M	09 - Part II - Disease Detectives, 8. Undiagnosed.mp3
8.2M	10 - 9. The Luck of the Irish.mp3
7.0M	11 - 10. Next-Day Delivery.mp3
17M	12 - 11. Hoofbeats in Central Park.mp3
11M	13 - Part III - Affairs of the Heart, 12. Whisky à Go-Go.mp3
12M	14 - 13. How Many Genomes Are You？.mp3
23M	15 - 14. Shake, Rattle, and Roll.mp3
24M	16 - 15. River of the Land of Pine Trees.mp3
18M	17 - 16. Songs in the Key of Life.mp3
19M	18 - Part IV - Precisely Accurate Medicine, 17. Superhumans.mp3
25M	19 - 18. Precision Medicine.mp3
25M	20 - 19. Genome Surgery.mp3
14M	21 - 20. The Road Ahead.mp3
3.2M	22 - Acknowledgements.mp3
300K	23 - Outro.mp3
32K	The Genome Odyssey.jpg
294M	total