A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life. J. Craig Venter

A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life



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A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life J. Craig Venter ebook pdf
Publisher: Viking Adult
Language: English
Page: 420
ISBN: 0670063584, 9780670063581

From Publishers Weekly

A great deal has been written about Venter as the head of Celera, the private research company that won a race with the National Institutes of Health's Human Genome Project to sequence the human genome. His role in this historic accomplishment has been both vilified and praised. Now, in a clumsily written autobiography, Venter offers his side of the story, portraying himself as the eternal underdog, fighting for truth and attempting to make scientific discoveries solely to help others. He is opposed in this struggle by a cadre of scientists out to advance their own careers, by a federal bureaucracy incapable of rationally using public funds to promote scientific advances and by the heads of corporations willing to do almost anything to make money. Venter accuses all of the big players—the Human Genome Project's Frances Collins and Nobel laureate James Watson, among many others—of outright dishonesty. Ignore the hyperbole and be skeptical of the accusations, but there's still a terribly depressing story about the politics of big science. Venter also attempts to contextualize the controversy swirling around the patenting of DNA sequences. Despite the lack of unbiased insight, this is well worth reading for the fascinating perspective it offers on one of the major scientific discoveries of all time. (Oct. 22) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Review

“With Venter, there must always be something new swelling on the horizon . . . he alone is taking the measure of life’s true diversity and dreaming up new life-forms at the same time.” —Wired “[Venter is] not just trying to understand how life works; he’s trying to make it work for him, and us.” —The Atlantic Monthly



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