Chapters 30-35 Summary

A focus group is listening to a pitch on a gene that promotes conventional wisdom. The group kicks around names for this new gene and eventually settles on sociability gene. At Bethesda, the Bioethics Review Panel is reviewing the case of a doctor who used a gene therapy on a young girl dying of a terminal disease and is now being sued by the patient's parents who say he did not warn them of the dangers of the treatment. The panel listens to the doctor's testimony and seems intent on sanctioning him, until Dr. Bellarmino convinces them that the doctor was in the right. From this meeting, Bellarmino meets with a young researcher working in his lab. The researcher has written a paper on some promising work he has recently completed. Bellarmino convinces the young man into placing his name first...