By Victor K. McElheny
Drawing the Map of Life takes the tale of the Human Genome undertaking from its origins, throughout the race to its accomplishment, and directly to today’s large efforts to use the entire, ordered series of the three billion subunits of DNA, the molecule of heredity. it's the first account to deal extensive and stability with the highbrow roots of the venture, the motivations that drove it, and the hype that regularly masked actual triumphs. McElheny profiles key humans, comparable to David Botstein, Eric Lander, Francis Collins, Watson, Michael Hunkapiller and Craig Venter. He additionally exhibits that, along with being an enormous occasion within the heritage of technological know-how, one who is revolutionizing drugs, the Human Genome undertaking is a impressive instance of the way new concepts and tools (such as restrict enzymes and sequencing methods), frequently arriving first, form the kind of questions scientists then ask.
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