Life Script
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...
Description
"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 obstacle to the ancient goal of conquering most major diseases." "Nicholas Wade has covered the sequencing of the genome, as well as other health and science stories, for The New York Times, in the course of which he has interviewed many of the principal researchers in the field. In this book he describes what the genome means for the health of present and future generations."--BOOK JACKET.