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The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World

The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World

Shreeve, James

Paperback

Biographies GeneralSports GeneralGenetics

ISBN10: 0345433742
ISBN13: 9780345433749
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Jun 28 2005
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.93 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.02
Language: English
The long-awaited story of the science, the business, the politics, the intrigue behind the scenes of the most ferocious competition in the history of modern science--the race to map the human genome.
On May 10, 1998, biologist Craig Venter, director of the Institute for Genomic Research, announced that he was forming a private company that within three years would unravel the complete genetic code of human life--seven years before the projected finish of the U.S. government's Human Genome Project. Venter hoped that by decoding the genome ahead of schedule, he would speed up the pace of biomedical research and save the lives of thousands of people. He also hoped to become very famous and very rich. Calling his company Celera (from the Latin for speed), he assembled a small group of scientists in an empty building in Rockville, Maryland, and set to work.

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