Scientific rivalries and scandals
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Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 2
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Should scientific discoveries belong to everyone? Or should they be the private property of the scientists? What if the discovery is something fundamental to all humanity and the crown jewel of twentieth-century biology? This book relates the effort to sequence the human genome and the fierce rivalry between the government-funded Human Genome Project and privately backed research led by scientist Craig Venter. The story is interspersed with interesting...
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