My Beautiful Genome Lone Frank Oneworld Publications, 2011: Shopping for a soft sweater and a comfy pair of genes
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Having recently finished watching the first season of Forbrydelsen (The Killing) I know something about Scandinavian knitwear. As the protagonist of this Danish TV thriller, Sarah Lund, doggedly solves a murder case, she is continuously huddling into a thick, cosy, snowflake sweater (there is even a website dedicated to this knitted garment). The traditional Scandinavian sweater is a useful image to have in mind when reading My Beautiful Genome: Exposing our Genetic Future, One Quirk at a Time, the most recent book by Danish science journalist Lone Frank, for it becomes a central metaphor within her argument:
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