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With the decoding of the human genome, researchers can now read the script in which evolution has written the program for the design and operation of the human body. A new generation of medical treatments is at hand. Researchers are developing therapies so powerful that there is now no evident... read more
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wealth, in the belief if that medical advance would be speediest if all biologists had full and free access to the human genome sequence. But in May 1998, almost eight years after the public consortium had begun to lay the technical groundwork and was within sight of success, a commercial enterprise headed by J. Craig Venter jumped into the fray with the goal of decoding the human genome as a profit-making venture.
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- Nicholas Wade (Author)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0743216059
Page Count: 208
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2001
ISBN: 0743216059
Page Count: 208
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