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By John Sulston and Georgina Ferry. 310 pp., illustrated. Washington, D.C., Joseph Henry Press, 2002. $24.95. ISBN 0-309-08409-1.

This is a gripping insider's story of the Human Genome Project, revealing both the exciting science leading to it and the battle to keep the results, "the heritage of humanity," secure from control by private interests. As the authors state in the preface, "Today any scientist anywhere can access the sequence freely at no cost. . . . We wrote this book so that people might understand how close the world came to losing that freedom."

In Sulston's case, the path to the Human Genome Project began with the nematode worm, on which he worked under Sydney Brenner at Cambridge's . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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