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Posted in Code Snippets on Mar 8th, 2008
The New York Times recently ran an article on Dan Stoicescu who recently paid a company $350,000 to buy the full sequence of his genetic code, some six billion units of information. The price seems high but it is a lot less than it cost to decode the first human genome originally and [...]
Posted in Books on Jan 14th, 2007
Masterminds: Genius, DNA, and the Quest to Rewrite Life
Suppose you left your job because you couldn’t get along with your boss. In cleaning out your desk, a photo surfaces that enables a colleague to make one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all times - one that he wins him the Nobel Prize. What [...]
Posted in Books on Mar 18th, 2005
Matt Ridley’s bestseller, a New York Times Book Review Editor’s choice, is an engaging read on the iimpact of our genes on our lives, written in lay terms. Each chapter focuses on a different chromosome.