Life Script
Subtitle: How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: August 28, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780743216050
Subjects: Modern fiction; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Human Genetic Engineering; Science; Science/Mathematics; Popular works; Genetics; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics; Science / Genetics; Human Genome Project; Human genome; Medical genetics
First sentence: 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.