GENETICS - A gene that gets in the way

Susanna lost both her mother and grandmother to breast cancer. She herself beat hers and wonders if her seven-year-old daughter carries the genetic mutation responsible for this family epidemic, the famous "Angelina Jolie gene". Jacques Fellay, geneticist and head of a genomics group at the EPFL, explains how advances in medicine are overturning our relationship with health and questioning our free will.