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Jessica Wapner is a freelance writer focused mainly on biomedical issues. Her work is published in Scientific American, The New York Times, Slate, Science, Nature Medicine, and elsewhere. Her first book, The Philadelphia Chromosome is forthcoming from The Experiment in May 2013.