Cracking the Genome: Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA: Craig Venter, Francis Collins, James Watson, and the Story of the Greatest Scientific Discovery of Our Time

Davies, Kevin

ISBN 10: 0743204794 / ISBN 13: 9780743204798

Published by The Free Press, New York, 2001

About this Item

Second printing. Signed by the author on the front endpaper: "Kevin Davies." The book is square and unmarked; corners sharp, tail of spine bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $25.00); light edgewear at spine ends; Brodart protected.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cracking the Genome: Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA: Craig Venter, Francis Collins, James Watson, and the Story of the Greatest Scientific Discovery of Our Time
• Publisher: The Free Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743204794
• ISBN 13: 9780743204798
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

A story of the race to crack the secrets of the human genome captures all the drama of the players involved, the project's leaders, Francis Collins and Craig Venter, and the secrets behind the most important scientific achievement of our time.

About the Author

Kevin Davies is the founding editor of Nature Genetics and coauthor of Breakthrough: The Race for the Breast Cancer Gene. He graduated from Oxford University and holds a Ph.D. in genetics from the University of London. He pursued postdoctoral study at MIT and Harvard Medical School before joining the editorial staff at Nature. He is at present Executive Editor of Current Biology and lives in Boston, Massachusetts.