A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (719 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143114182 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Bigger than life" according to Michael T Kennedy. Having read The Genome War, I had preordered Venter's own story. I was not disappointed. The Publisher's Weekly review sniffs that it is "clumsily written." I would attribute that opinion to one of two possibilities. Either the reviewer never got beyond the early chapters about his childhood, which are marred by cliche and some amateurish prose, or the reviewer does not know enough biology to und. Amazon Customer said "the best way to judge a person is by looking his. Well the path that the author took was really fascinating to read. The think that kept me reading, was how a confused young man finds his niche and follows it,despite the big hurdles. Quoting: "the best way to judge a person is by looking his enemies ". An Answer to Extending Life of Homo sapiens Gary Julian J Craig VENTER is my hero. His work, with Charles DARWIN, is prolonging the inevitable extinction of man. This book describes the strong American character of action with taking risk. The future in supplying answers to health and energy sources is in microbiology.I enjoyed this book primarily due to my recent interest in molecular genealogy.
A thrilling story of detection, A Life Decoded is also a revealing, and often troubling, look at how science is practiced today.. Craig Venter traces his rise from an uninspired student to one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in science today. In A Life Decoded, J. The triumphant memoir of the man behind one of the greatest feats in scientific historyOf all the scientific achievements of the past century, perhaps none can match the deciphering of the human genetic code, both for its technical brilliance and for its implications for our future. Here, Venter relates the unparalleled drama of the quest to decode the human genome?a goal he predicted he could achieve years earlier and more cheaply than the government-sponsored Human Genome Project, and one that he fulfilled in 2001
Now, in a clumsily written autobiography, Venter offers his side of the story, portraying himself as the eternal underdog, fighting for truth and attempting to make scientific discoveries solely to help others. Venter also attempts to contextualize the controversy swirling around the patenting of DNA sequences. All rights reserved. He is opposed in this struggle by a cadre of scientists out to advance their own careers, by a federal bureaucracy incapable of rationally using public funds to promote scientific advances and by the heads of corporations willing to do almost anything to make money.
J . . Craig Venter, a pioneer in the world of genomic research, is one of the leading scientists of the twenty-first century. I n February 2001, he published the completed sequence of the human genome