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Jill Dopf Viles

Jill Dopf Viles, DIY scientist

August 15, 2025 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Book cover: Manufacturing My Miracle: One woman's quest to create her personalized gene therapy, by Jill Dopf Viles. Bloomsbury

Jill Dopf Viles suspected a killer was hiding in her family’s genetic code. Symptoms popped up among her siblings, her father, her uncle, her grandmother, but, despite 15 annual visits to the Mayo Clinic, no clinician suggested anything more specific than muscular dystrophy. Viles studied genetics in college and spent hours in the library, reading […]

Filed Under: Champions, Networkers, Seekers, Solvers Tagged With: books I love, Jill Dopf Viles, muscular dystrophy, Rare Disease, rare diseases, Rebel Health, Wow! How? Health

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