Life Decoded My Genome: My Life

Name: Life Decoded My Genome: My Life
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ISBN: 9780143114185

ISBN-10: 0143114182

ISBN-13: 9780143114185

Edition: N/A

Authors: J. Craig Venter

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The triumphant memoir of the man behind one of the greatest feats in scientific history Of all the scientific achievements of the past century, perhaps none can match the deciphering of the human genetic code, both for its technical brilliance and for its implications for our future. In A Life Decoded, J. Craig Venter traces his rise from an uninspired student to one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in science today. Here, Venter relates the unparalleled drama of the quest to decode the human genomea goal he predicted he could achieve years earlier and more cheaply than the government-sponsored Human Genome Project, and one that he fulfilled in 2001. A thrilling story of…

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List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.60" wide x 8.40" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Introduction



Writing My Code



University of Death



Adrenaline Junkie



Starting Over in Buffalo



Scientific Heaven, Bureaucratic Hell



Big Biology



TIGR Cub



Gene Wars



Shotgun Sequencing



Institutional Divorce



Sequencing the Human



Mad Magazine and Destructive Businessmen



Flying Forward



The First Human Genome



The White House, June 26, 2000



Publish and Be Damned



Blue Planet and New Life


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index