A Life Decoded by J. Craig Venter

My Genome: My Life

This memoir follows a rebellious scientist from a rough adolescence and service as a Navy medic in Vietnam to the forefront of genomics, detailing the race between public and private efforts to sequence the human genome, the development of shotgun sequencing, the choice to decode his own DNA, and the ethical, political, and personal controversies that shaped his vision for personalized medicine and synthetic biology.

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