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The Common Thread (Paperback)

by John Sulston (Author), Georgina Ferry (Author)

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Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Corgi Books; New edition edition (2 Mar 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0552999415
ISBN-13: 978-0552999410
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 2.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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Guardian - Steven Rose
‘Unputdownable…an insider’s story of one of the century’s greatest technopolitical ventures’

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‘Our nation is much the richer for Sulston’s existence’

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the great stories of our own era, 3 Jul 2003

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This book really has everything. It's hard to think of a more laudable and fundamental project in terms of understanding the nature of life itself than to sequence our own genetic code.

Although the story of how the sequence was untangled would in itself be a remarkable and noteworthy topic for a book, the fact that it became a battle between private business and publicly funded scientists to unlock the genetic code makes it even more fascinating.

The book becomes a chronology of the race to find the sequence between a public group of scientists determined to keep the knowledge public for the sake of science and future research, and the "bad guys" - a private company trying to do the same thing for their own financial gain.

The book tackles many contemporary issues of science, morality and politics along the way from the start of the project to the publication of most of the genetic sequence near the beginning of the 21st century.

Fascinating stuff with a happy ending too, and one of the great contemporary stories and achievements of science written by someone who was involved from start to finish in the race to publish the human genetic sequence in the public domain.

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