My son's book

Downthestretch55 · #1 11-02-2006, 05:53 PM

Some here have heard about my son's research. His book is now on Amazon.
I don't think there's a huge market for it but I told him I'd try to sell a few thousand for him. My guess is that it won't be made into a movie or "made for tv".
If you're interested, here's the link:

http://www.amazon.com/Molecular-gene...e=UTF8&s=books

DTS

#2 11-02-2006, 06:19 PM

Who wrote the book description on Amazon???

Hey, brains are sexy!!!

1st_Saturday_in_May · #3 11-02-2006, 06:23 PM

Well done, but I honestly tried to read the description and I couldnt even tell ya what it's about!

paisjpq · #4 11-02-2006, 06:27 PM

I'm happy for your son and wish him success selling millions of copies...but must admit that this will not be on my nightstand any time in the near future

Downthestretch55 · #5 11-02-2006, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by paisjpq

I'm happy for your son and wish him success selling millions of copies...but must admit that this will not be on my nightstand any time in the near future

LOL!!! Pais!
It's kind of funny that when he tries to explain it to me, I get lost at points too.
The bottom line of this research is that it will help to find the causes of a condition called "hole in the heart" that six in ten thousand babies are born with. It's why they are rushed to the operating room from the delivery room for heart surgery. If the causes can be found, then genetic interventions might also be, and inutero remedies could be implemented.
There are also many other applications for understanding fgf 15 and fgf 9.
One is retinal cancer and another might be the malformation of other kinds of cells (cancers).
DTS

timmgirvan · #6 11-02-2006, 07:05 PM

Good for him,DTS! I must admit that the description of book made my eyes water....but a published author/doctor is impressive! Hopefully this will lead to monster grant money to further his research. Go Joshua!

Downthestretch55 · #7 11-02-2006, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by timmgirvan

Good for him,DTS! I must admit that the description of book made my eyes water....but a published author/doctor is impressive! Hopefully this will lead to monster grant money to further his research. Go Joshua!

Thanks Timm!
Proud Pappa that I am, I just had to share it with the board.
It's interesting to me.
Heck, I got interested in genetics after I read about what Orville Reddenbacher went through to find a better popcorn.
Then I became fascinated by the mutation for a larger heart in thoroughbreds, like Secretariat.
Now, I'm intrigued by coloration adaptations to brook trout, in that I live at the headwaters of three major river systems, Delaware, Susqehannah, and a major Hudson tributary. All three strains of brook trout live within five miles of each other. All were deposited during the melting of the glaciers of the pliestocene (about 20,000-15,000 years ago). Interesting to me is that all three strains of brooktrout have adaptations (coloration and spot patterns) despite the fact that they live in very similar habitats.
Genetics is a very interesting topic to me.
DTS

Downthestretch55 · #8 11-02-2006, 06:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Balletto

Who wrote the book description on Amazon???

Hey, brains are sexy!!!

Balletto,
I'm sure Joshua did. He's now working on post doc cardiac research in Indianapolis.
I'll tell him you think "brains are sexy!" LOL!
In my very humble opinion (tee hee), good looks also run in the family.
If you didn't have a boyfriend, I'd try to hook you up.
From you pics, I think you're plenty gorgeous.
DTS

skippy3481 · #9 11-03-2006, 11:06 AM

Dts, where is your son doing his post doc work at. IU or at a local hospital.

Downthestretch55 · #10 11-03-2006, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by skippy3481

Dts, where is your son doing his post doc work at. IU or at a local hospital.

Skippy,
He's at the Wells Institute which is part of IU in Indianapolis.

And to all the rest of you that are shaking your heads saying, I feel this is beyond my ability to understand...I'm with you.
Thank you all for your kind words of encouragement. I'll pass them along.
I hope that what he finds helps lots of people. To think it all started so long ago when he found a fossil of a Devonian clam, a sperifer, when I took him off my shoulders and put him in some rocks on the bank so I could make a cast with my flyrod, when he was two years old and curious...and all I wanted was a decent cast to some rising trout...
Sometimes, good things just work out.
He didn't become a paleontologist, though that was an early interest.
I did catch a nice brown that day.
We went home with dinner and a backpack full of rocks.
Things have never been the same since.

Thanks for your nice words.

Wayne