01640nam a22002177a 4500 20220506123040.0 220506b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0297646982 AL English 23 611.01816 DAVS Kevin Davies 34575 Sequence: Inside the Race for the Human Genome London Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2001 vi,310 p. HB 24x16 cm. An 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 three billion Human Genome Project led by the brilliant geneticist Francis Collins and a renegade biotech company founded by scientist-entrepreneur J. Craig Venter. When the Human Genome Project, a 15-year joint project between the US and UK governments, was launched in 1990, it was inconceivable that anyone else would have the technology, the expertise or the financial resources to even enter the race, much less win it. In 1998 Venter announced that his company Celera would use high-powered sequencing machines to complete the sequence from scratch in three years. This book takes the reader into the labs and lives of the two men who making history. Regardless of who "wins" the race, this is a discovery that will revolutionize our lives. Human genome; Human gene mapping 34576 Human gene mapping 34577 DAVIES (Kevin) 34578 ddc GF 222812 222812 0 0 ddc 0 0 BT AL AL 2013-03-24 0 611.01816 DAVS GF03090 2022-05-06 00:00:00 2022-05-06 GF