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Cracking The Genome
Cracking The Genome
Inside The Race To Unlock Human Dna  
By Kevin Davies
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Contents

INTRODUCTION

ONE Knights of the Double Helix
The Quest for Biology's Holy Grail

TWO Reading the Book of Life
A Quick Voyage Around the Human Genome

THREE The Eye of the TIGR
J. Craig Venter -- Maverick Sequencer

FOUR Loading the Bases
Francis Collins and the DNA Detectives

FIVE The Circle of Life
Decoding the First Free-Living Creatures

SIX Treasures of the Lost Worlds
The Keys to Human Disease from Tristan da Cunha to Iceland

SEVEN Prize Fight
The Creation of Celera Genomics

EIGHT The Story of Us
The Secrets of Who We Are

NINE The Croesus Code
Passion, Personality, and Profit

TEN The Eighth Day
Braving the New World of Designer Genes

ELEVEN The Language of God
A Defining Moment in the History of the Human Race

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