LIFE SCRIPT: How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health.(Review)

From: The Washington Monthly | Date: September 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

LIFE SCRIPT: How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health by Nicholas Wade Simon & Schuster, $24.00

TO HEAR NICHOLAS WADE TELL IT, June 26, 2000, marked "the beginning of a new era of medicine." That was the day President Bill Clinton, speaking in the East Room of the White House, announced that biologists had completed a first survey of the 3 billion DNA letters, or sequences, that define the human genome. Clinton compared this accomplishment to "learning the language in which God created life." Wade, with only slightly less rhetorical ...

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