Cracking the Genome by Kevin Davies, Free Press, £16.92, ISBN
0743204794
WHICH Nobel prize-winning scientist was also a star in two of the most
compelling dramas of the 20th century? No, don’t bother reaching for a film
guide, you’ll find the answer in Cracking the Genome, Kevin Davies’s
fascinating book about the race to decode the human genome.
And the answer is James Watson, head of the international, publicly funded
Human Genome Project between 1988 and 1992. The project vied with the American
company Celera Genomics to be the first to sequence the human genome. Watson is
of course better…
