“One in a Billion: A Boy’s Life, a Medical Mystery“, a 3-part article in the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Sentinel Journal, explores the frontiers of personalized medicine and the story of one boy and his family seeking diagnosis and treatment for an extremely rare and devastating genetic disorder.
This is a great example of how personal genome sequencing is making it’s way into medical practice, and in this case – revealing both the cause of his terrible illness, but also illuminating a course of treatment.
This series would work well as a sort ” extending the lesson” assigned reading in class, or for a student who was particularly interesting in the intersection of research and clinical applications. Don’t miss the videos.