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CRISPR'd
CRISPR'd: A Medical Thriller | Judy Foreman
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For fans of Julia Buckley and Tess Gerritsen, a debut featuring a killer in plain sight using a microscopic murder weapon, the cutting edge gene-editing technology: CRISPR. Boston geneticist Dr. Saul Kramer is on the cutting edge of genetic disease research. Revered among clients at his IVF clinic, he harbors a dark secret. In addition to helping infertile couples conceive healthy babies, Dr. Kramer is obsessed, for his own dark reasons, with an alternate mission as well. In certain patients, he uses the gene editing technology CRISPR to tamper with embryos, not to improve the health of the embryos, but to replace a healthy gene with a deadly mutation. A young female journalist, Sammie Fuller, begins to suspect what he has done when three infants conceived at his clinic die mysteriously, all at about one year old. She and a molecular biologist work secretly in his MIT lab to identify any genetic defects in the deceased children and together make a chilling discovery. Thanks to Sammie’s blockbuster stories, which go viral, Dr. Kramer is charged with murder and winds up in court. In the subsequent dramatic court scenes, his feisty defense lawyer stuns the world with her defense. Set in this uneasy time of genetic engineering with CRISPR technology, Foreman, spins a compelling tale of love, revenge, and murder.
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HiMyNames_Alyssa
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This book was a doozy. Easy to read, fast paced, short, good to get out of a reading slump. Not as twisty as I would have hoped for the "thriller" denotation. But ended well. However. Check trigger warnings. If, like me, you don't know how to do that, I'll leave some in the comments.

HiMyNames_Alyssa TWs: (in)fertility, SA, ethical dilemmas, abortion debate, death of children 9mo
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HiMyNames_Alyssa
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First pull from my little TBR jar. And its one I already have in my kindle library! I actually got this one recently and am excited to read it.

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FelinesAndFelonies
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Insomnia & currently reading. If you like Loreth Anne White's The Patient's Secret, then you'll love this one. It has had me sucked in since chapter one!