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Title Cracking the genome : inside the race to unlock human DNA / Kevin Davies.

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 General Collection  QH445.2 .D38 2001    AVAILABLE
Description vi, 310 pages ; 25 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-296) and index.
Contents Knights of the double helix: the quest for biology's holy grail -- Reading the book of life: a quick voyage around the human genome -- Eye of the TIGR: J. Craig Venter, maverick sequencer -- Loading the bases: Francis Collins and the DNA detectives -- Circle of life: decoding the first free-living creatures -- Treasures of the lost worlds: the keys to human disease from Tristan da Cunha to Iceland -- Prize fight: the creation of Celera Genomics -- Story of us: the secrets of who we are -- Croesus code: passion, personality, and profit -- Eighth day: braving the new world of designer genes -- Language of God: a defining moment in the history of the human race.
Subject Human Genome Project -- Popular works.
Human genome -- Popular works.
Local Subj. Resources for College Libraries. (RCL)
Standard # 0743204794

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