The first in-depth, inside look at personal genomics, its larger-than-life research subjects, its entrepreneurs and do-it-yourselfers, its technology developers, the bewildered and overwhelmed physicians and regulators who must negotiate it, and the political, social, ethical and familial issues it continues to raise

“As a writer and former genetic counselor, Mr. Angrist makes an apt chronicler of personal genomics, not least because he is happy to invade his own privacy, personally as well as genetically . . . . In many ways Here Is a Human Being is a delight. It is a bracingly honest and open-minded survey, told as a personal story, of a field that will one day surely matter hugely to medicine.” —Wall Street Journal