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A life decoded: My genome — my life

2008-03-03

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One look at the cover of A life decoded by J. Craig Venter and you know you are not looking at a run-of-the-mill scientist’s biography. Venter’s visage, framed not by a white lab coat but by a yellow sailing slicker, stares out at the prospective reader with the sun bursting forth behind his earlobe from a stormy sky. On the back cover are blurbs in praise, not of the book, but of J. Craig Venter. Inside, 400 page...

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Literature Corpus work: 69fd2e50-e229-53f4-b7bb-b7563c01c464
DOI: 10.1172/jci34979

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