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By J. Craig Venter. 390 pp., illustrated. New York, Viking, 2007. $25.95. ISBN 978-0-670-06358-1.

Whether launching a hostile takeover of the Human Genome Project or discovering millions of new genes from the oceans, whether genetically engineering artificial life or appearing on television's Comedy Central channel, J. Craig Venter is unquestionably one of the most celebrated and controversial biologists of his generation. His latest exploit was the publication in September of his personal "book of life" — his complete genome sequence.

Venter thus finds himself in the exalted position of being the first person to try to decode his genome, or as he writes in his autobiography, A Life Decoded, "the sum of six billion . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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