Life Decoded...Author: J. Craig Venter (used hardcover)

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Format: Hardcover; ISBN: 9780670063581; Release Date: Oct 2007; List Price: $25.95; Publisher: Viking Penguin; Length: 390 pages. Condition: Very Good. Has a remainder mark at very bottom. Dust jacket and cover are both still in overall great shape, binding is strong, and pages are unmarked. May have some shelfdust.

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The story of the man who achieved one of the greatest feats of our era--the mapping of the human genome. After nearly flunking out of high school, Venter went to Vietnam, where the life and death struggles he encountered as a medic piqued his interest in science and medicine. In 1984 he joined the National Institutes of Health, introduced novel techniques for rapid gene discovery, and left in 1991 to form his own nonprofit genomics research center, where he sequenced the first genome in history in 1995. In 1998 he announced that he would successfully sequence the human genome years sooner, and for far less money, than the government-sponsored Human Genome Project would--a prediction he kept in 2001. The tale involves as much politics (personal and political) as science. He also describes the other startling projects he has conducted since.

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