BLAME. A NOVEL - Tecno-Libro

A bright young star on the medical school faculty, Jason Pearce worries that he ll lose NiH funding as his basic research falters. .He signs a contract with a venture capital company that enables him to embark on a study of mice whose memory fails as they age. . He discovers that their forgetfulness is due to a defective memory gene. that the loss can be prevented by injecting young mice with the normal memory gene. and that the same type of gene defect increases the risk of Alzheimer s Disease. With approval of his medical school s ethics review board, he launches a randomized clinical trial to see if injection of a normal human memory gene can prevent Alzheimer s Disease. Betsy Matthews, a middle-aged African-American, develops leukemia a year after she receives the injection. A colleague of Jason s discovers that the injected memory gene triggered Betsy s leukemia. . Nobody suspects negligence until Janice Polk, a young investigative reporter, asks a ques