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Jessica Wapner
Jessica Wapner is the collaborating writer on the #1 New York Times–bestselling Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body, by Andrew D. Huberman. A journalist and former science editor at Newsweek, and a co-host with Elle Fanning of the One Click podcast, her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Wired, Medium, Discover, Popular Science, Self, Scientific American, New York magazine, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. She is the author of The Philadelphia Chromosome, named a top ten nonfiction book by The Wall Street Journal, and Wall Disease. She lives in Brooklyn.
A Mutant Gene and the Quest to Cure Cancer at the Genetic Level
by Jessica Wapner
by Jessica Wapner
Hardcover | $25.95 US
Philadelphia, 1959: A scientist scrutinizing a single human cell under a microscope detects a missing piece of DNA. That scientist, David Hungerford, had no way of knowing that he had stumbled upon the starting point of modern cancer research—the Philadelphia … Continue reading →
A Genetic Mystery, a Lethal Cancer, and the Improbable Invention of a Lifesaving Treatment
by Jessica Wapner
by Jessica Wapner
Paperback | $15.95 US / $21.00 CAN
Philadelphia, 1959: A scientist scrutinizing a single human cell under a microscope detects a missing piece of DNA. That scientist, David Hungerford, had no way of knowing that he had stumbled upon the starting point of modern cancer research— the … Continue reading →
The Psychological Toll of Living Up Against a Border
by Jessica Wapner
by Jessica Wapner
Paperback with flaps | $12.95 US / $16.95 CAN
East Germans were the first to give the crisis a name: Mauerkrankheit, or “wall disease.” The afflicted—everyday citizens living on both sides of the Berlin wall—displayed some combination of depression, anxiety, excitability, suicidal ideation, and paranoia. The Berlin Wall is … Continue reading →
