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By Arthur Kornberg. 287 pp., illustrated. Sausalito, Calif., University Science Books, 1995. $28.50. ISBN 0-935702-32-6.

Arthur Kornberg, professor emeritus of biochemistry at Stanford University School of Medicine, has written a deeply disturbing book. It is hard to understand what motivated him to write The Golden Helix. The book is nothing more than a puff piece for a biotechnology company, DNAX, which Kornberg and three associates started in 1980. The Golden Helix could have been torn from a company's brochure for high rollers at the biotech gambling table (or, as Kornberg puts it, "the biotech crapshoot"). But it is a real book, produced by a legitimate publishing house, and it is about real people.

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