Ultimately, GRIDLOCK came together as a plot-driven thriller, building to an unexpected and furious face off. government, Illumina, which makes genomic medical devices, the San Francisco FBI and super computing professionals. How far would detractors go to halt progress? That's what GRIDLOCK explores.īecoming a bit obsessive with research, he interviewed genomics companies such as Celera, which decoded the human genome at a fraction of the cost of the U.S.
Careers and fortunes depend on old healthcare practices. But such radical modernization would not come without push back. Turns out diseases like cancer are as individual as a fingerprint. The more he dug, the more hooked he became. Scientists were unlocking the secrets of DNA to find our susceptibilities to disease so precision treatment could become routine. Customized drugs were replacing one-size-fits-all prescriptions. Landing in Fort Lauderdale, Alvin's curiosity was piqued. The Internet age, which had disrupted the newspaper, music, book, and movie industries, would now extend our lives. The digital revolution had finally wound its way home.to our bodies. Petri dishes and microscopes were being replaced with databases and computer workstations.It was the start of personalized medicine.the decoding of the human genome. A revolution had begun, but few knew about it.
Will he be next? Pitted against a powerful, faceless enemy, he hunts to rescue the person closest to him and forestall catastrophic GRIDLOCK.While updating computer networks in Beth Israel Medical Center, Alvin saw firsthand how biology and computers were converging. Wagner's closest colleagues are dying mysteriously. But rapid modernization sparks a violent reaction. It brings hope to millions as personalized medicine becomes reality. Leveraging a vast computer network (that really exists), Wagner can interpret an individual's DNA with lightning speed. His computer code unlocks mankind's greatest scientific discovery-the human genome.
* Jude Wagner should be on top of the world. Will he be next? Pitted against a powerful, faceless enemy, he hunts to rescue the person closest to him and.
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