Mutation is a book written by Robin Cook (novelist) about the ethics of genetic engineering. It brings up the benefits, risks, and consequences.
Victor Frank, and his wife Marsha, are unable to have a second child due to Marsha's infertility. They turn to surrogation as an alternate method of conception. Victor, a biologist and owner of the biochemical company Chimera Inc., injects the egg implanted in his wife with an agent called Nerve Growth F...
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Mutation is a book written by Robin Cook (novelist) about the ethics of genetic engineering. It brings up the benefits, risks, and consequences.
Victor Frank, and his wife Marsha, are unable to have a second child due to Marsha's infertility. They turn to surrogation as an alternate method of conception. Victor, a biologist and owner of the biochemical company Chimera Inc., injects the egg implanted in his wife with an agent called Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) into chromosome six, which causes the baby to grow more neurons than usual, as a result making them super intelligent. Their son, VJ, is born a genius. He is able to talk in six months and read in thirteen. Several years later his brother, David, and nanny, Janice, both die of an unexplainable rare form of liver cancer. At about three, VJ experiences a drop in intelligence, leading Victor to think his experiment is a failure. VJ lives a secluded life from that point, leading his psychiatrist mother to worry, to the annoyance of...
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