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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0670063584
ISBN-13
9780670063581
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60058371
Product Key Features
Book Title
Life Decoded : My Genome: My Life
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, Science & Technology
Genre
Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
23.7 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-033348
Reviews
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, “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.â€� — Wired “[Venter is] not just trying to understand how life works; he’s trying to make it work for him, and us.â€� — The Atlantic Monthly
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
A
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
576.5092 B
Grade To
UP
Synopsis
The triumphant true story of the man who achieved one of the greatest feats of our era—the mapping of the human genome Growing up in California, Craig Venter didn’t appear to have much of a future. An unremarkable student, he nearly flunked out of high school. After being drafted into the army, he enlisted in the navy and went to Vietnam, where the life and death struggles he encountered as a medic piqued his interest in science and medicine. After pursuing his advanced degrees, Venter quickly established himself as a brilliant and outspoken scientist. In 1984 he joined the National Institutes of Health, where he 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 earlier, and for far less money, than the government-sponsored Human Genome Project would— a prediction he kept in 2001. A Life Decoded is the triumphant story of one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in science today. In his riveting and inspiring account Venter tells of the unparalleled drama of the quest for the human genome, a tale that involves as much politics (personal and political) as science. He also reveals how he went on to be the first to read and interpret his own genome and what it will mean for all of us to do the same. He describes his recent sailing expedition to sequence microbial life in the ocean, as well as his groundbreaking attempt to create synthetic life. Here is one of the key scientific chronicles of our lifetime, as told by the man who beat the odds to make it happen.
LC Classification Number
QH31
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