This is a science driven book that explains how the genome and its mapping plays such an important part of our lives. Genomes determine our health status and our health risks. It determines what we genetically can pass on to our families in disease but also health maintenance. In this age of Covid it also pertinent in how vaccine therapies are developed and can be used to prevent pandemics. This book shares stories of people and how genetic science plays a part of this story. It demonstrates how genetic sequencing plays a role in therapeutic intervention and how that leads to diagnosis and treatment. This book is written simply and in a way any one can understand how genetics is so important to our future. Gives people the power to make major life decisions about their health and the health of their family for the generations to come. Highly recommended.