A personal account of the discovery of the human genome sequence.
John Sulston was the director of the Sanger Centre in Cambridge, where he led the British team in their work on the Human Genome Project, for seven years (1993-2000). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and was knighted in the 2001 New Year's Honours List for his contribution to science. Georgina Ferry is a science writer and broadcaster and the author of Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life which was short-listed for both the Duff Cooper Prize and the March Biography Award.
'Unputdownable...an insider's story of one of the century's
greatest technopolitical ventures'
*Guardian*
'Burns with a passion and a sense of injustice that I have never
felt before in a book by a successful scientist...anyone who is
fascinated by the politics and ethics of research should read
it'
*Financial Times*
'Our nation is much the richer for Sulston's existence'
*Observer*
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