New Fiction Book on Lab Life

I just read this interview with Allegra Goodman, author of the new book Intuition. What is the book about? From the NY Times:

A postdoctoral student at the Philpott Institute in Cambridge, Mass., has an astonishing result: a virus he engineered seems to cure breast cancer in mice.

Now the two lab directors, cautious Marion Mendelssohn and politically savvy Sandy Glass are arguing about what to do. Dr. Mendelssohn wants to take her time and make sure the results are correct before discussing them; Dr. Glass wants to make his move now, before a competitor hears about his work and beats him to it.

"We can wait until we've dotted every 'i' and crossed each 't,' " Dr. Glass tells her. "We can wait until we reproduce it all and submit it to Nature. We can make sure every research note coming from the lab is of archival quality. Or we can seize the moment now. We can announce results that are still preliminary."

"Results that may be incorrect," Dr. Mendelssohn replies.

"Right," says Dr. Glass. "We can risk that they're incorrect and stake our claim before someone else does."

OK this sounds excellent!