Sir Walter Bodmer is one of the world's most distinguished human geneticists and former president of the Human Genome Organisation (Hugo). He has been a professor at Stanford University, Professor of Genetics at Oxford University and Director General of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. He is now Principal of Hertford College, Oxford and a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences.
Robin McKie is Science Editor of The Observer. He has followed the story of modern molecular biology's flowering and has written numerous articles and books on the subject.
