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The race to unravel the human genome
Author(s) -
Whitelaw Emma
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.1093/embo-reports/kvf126
Subject(s) - politics , history , genealogy , biology , political science , law
![][1] The Common Threadby John Sulston and GeorginaFerryBantam Press, London, UK320 pages, €27.50ISBN 0 59 304801 6The Common Thread is the story of the race to sequence the human genome. John Sulston, director of the Sanger Centre in Cambridge and the Human Genome Project in the UK, and science journalist Georgina Ferry have produced a book with all the elements required to keep a reader happy: a good story, goodies and baddies, big money and big politics.The book retraces the decision by a few individuals to start such a bold project, the ensuing battles to obtain funding from governments throughout the world and the panic caused by the sudden announcement that a private company was entering the race. ‘As they gathered at Cold Spring Harbor on 12th May, 1998 for the annual symposium on genome mapping and sequencing, the leaders of the Human Genome Project were in various stages of … [1]: /embed/graphic-1.gif