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My Genome: My Life
Viking Adult
October 2007
On Sale: October 18, 2007
400 pages
ISBN: 0670063584
EAN: 9780670063581
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
The triumphant true story of the man who achieved one of the
greatest feats of our era—the mapping of the human genome Growing up in California, Craig Venter didn’t appear to have
much of a future. An unremarkable student, he nearly flunked
out of high school. After being drafted into the army, he
enlisted in the navy and went to Vietnam, where the life and
death struggles he encountered as a medic piqued his
interest in science and medicine. After pursuing his
advanced degrees, Venter quickly established himself as a
brilliant and outspoken scientist. In 1984 he joined the
National Institutes of Health, where he introduced novel
techniques for rapid gene discovery, and left in 1991 to
form his own nonprofit genomics research center, where he
sequenced the first genome in history in 1995. In 1998 he
announced that he would successfully sequence the human
genome years earlier, and for far less money, than the
government-sponsored Human Genome Project would— a
prediction he kept in 2001. A Life Decoded is the triumphant story of one of the most
fascinating and controversial figures in science today. In
his riveting and inspiring account Venter tells of the
unparalleled drama of the quest for the human genome, a tale
that involves as much politics (personal and political) as
science. He also reveals how he went on to be the first to
read and interpret his own genome and what it will mean for
all of us to do the same. He describes his recent sailing
expedition to sequence microbial life in the ocean, as well
as his groundbreaking attempt to create synthetic life. Here
is one of the key scientific chronicles of our lifetime, as
told by the man who beat the odds to make it happen.
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