Special gene. Boys K.

Thirty -year -old Doris, a freelance correspondent for a large metropolitan newspaper, collects materials about the new Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. The Icelandic-Swedish scientist Paul Karasson was discovered by the gene, which simultaneously determines the tendency to creativity and schizophrenia. The topic causes Doris not only professional, but also personal interest, since her brother, the once gifted mathematician and the Swedish champion in the GO GO, suffer from this ailment. The journalist accidentally meets the thirty-five-year-old son of Laureate-Ernom, also a scientist, and there is sympathy between them.

Karin Boyce (b. 1959)-scientific observer of the largest Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, author of the popular science-science Books about genetics (in the Russian translation “My prehistoric family. Genetic detective”. “Individuum”, 2020). The detective “Special Gene” is her first experience in the genre of the novel. As the author admits, “This book is mostly based on my own experience. Many years ago, I came to journalism as a freelance correspondent of Aftonbladet newspaper and worked for almost two decades the editor of the scientific department of Dagens Nyheter. "