Well, I was wondering when someone would write a book about Venter (who deserves a Nobel, a few times over).
Turns out he wrote one himself. I think I gotta get me a copy.
I found out about this book through an article on him in Salon that my wife sent me. I haven’t read the article, but will on my long trip tomorrow.
Link: Amazon.com: A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life: Books: J. Craig Venter:
A great deal has been written about Venter as the head of Celera, the private research company that won a race with the National Institutes of Health’s Human Genome Project to sequence the human genome. His role in this historic accomplishment has been both vilified and praised. Now, in a clumsily written autobiography, Venter offers his side of the story, portraying himself as the eternal underdog, fighting for truth and attempting to make scientific discoveries solely to help others. (Publishers Weekly).
