MFA Greensboro Alum Jillian Weise Reviewed at ‘Philadelphia City Paper”

Growing Pains
Under the Covers with Justin Bauer

by Justin Bauer
 Mar 3, 2010

In Jillian Weise’s The Colony (Soft Skull, March 1), researchers gather subjects for radical gene therapy.
They can mend Alzheimer’s, they say, and delete a predisposition toward fat.

Anne Hatley, even as she participates in the study, remains unconvinced. With the cellular ability to regenerate new tissue three times faster than other people, she has the most promising genetic profile of the five subjects. The 25-year-old walks with a prosthetic leg; the researchers dangle the promise that she will be able to grow herself an entirely new limb.

Read the entire review:
http://citypaper.net/articles/2010/03/04/growing-pains

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