Craig Venter Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

A celebrated genome scientist sails around the world, collecting tens of millions of marine microbes and revolutionising our understanding of the microbiome that sustains us.

Le scientifique renommé et auteur de A Life Decoded examine la création de la vie dans le domaine de la génomique synthétique.

<b>The triumphant memoir of the man behind one of the greatest feats in scientific history</b> Of all the scientific achievements of the past century, perhaps none can match the deciphering of the human genetic code, both for its technical brilliance and for its implications for our future. In <i>A Life Decoded</i>, J. Craig Venter traces his rise from an uninspired student to one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in science today. Here, Venter relates the unparalleled drama of the quest to decode the human genome?a goal he predicted he could achieve years earlier and more cheaply than the government-sponsored Human Genome Project, and one that he fulfilled in 2001. A thrilling story of detection, <i>A Life Decoded</i> is also a revealing, and often troubling, look at how science is practiced today.

The story of the man who achieved one of the greatest feats of our era--the mapping of the human genome. After nearly flunking out of high school, Venter went to Vietnam, where the life and death struggles he encountered as a medic piqued his interest ins