As someone who worked as a biochemist in the 80's and 90's I quite enjoyed this book. There were inaccuracies in the science; as others have pointed out, no DNA sequencing in the 50's and 60's, but I felt the misogyny and treatment of women were quite realistic.

It does seem like a novel informed by today's values that would not have been written a few years ago. There seem to be a lot of books like this being written. It's particularly jarring for historical novels. It's encouraging that we can now recognize the harms that were done in the past, but it makes such novels seem a bit like fantasies.