The Sequence: Inside the Race for the Human Genome

by Kevin Davies

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"The Sequence" is the definitive account of what has been described as the single most important scientific breakthrough of modern times - the elucidation of mankind's complete genetic script. It is a story in which science, politics, business and society meet head on. At its heart is the race between the $3 billion Human Genome Project led by the brilliant geneticist Francis Collins, and a renegade biotech company founded by the scientist-entrepreneur J. Craig Venter. This riveting book takes the reader into the labs and lives of these and other researchers who in late 2000 completed the first draft of the human genome. Regardless of who 'won' the race, the stakes involved in this remarkable work are staggeringly high.
  • ISBN10 0753813165
  • ISBN13 9780753813164
  • Publish Date 7 February 2002 (first published 22 February 2001)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 15 August 2008
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Orion Publishing Co
  • Imprint Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 320
  • Language English