Volume 55, Number 4 · March 20, 2008
The Genetic Adventurer
By H. Allen Orr
A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life
by J. Craig Venter
Viking, 390 pp., $25.95
Most science proceeds quietly. Many scientific problems are tackled by one or a few laboratories and the results are published in a journal that the public has never heard of. And even when science does make it into the mainstream press, it's almost always briefly and after the fact: the study is done and its findings are reported in a few sentences.
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