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Article: LIFE SCRIPT: How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health.(Review)
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- The Washington Monthly
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- September 1, 2001
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LIFE SCRIPT: How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health by Nicholas Wade Simon & Schuster, $24.00
TO HEAR NICHOLAS WADE TELL IT, June 26, 2000, marked "the beginning of a new era of medicine." That was the day President Bill Clinton, speaking in the East Room of the White House, announced that biologists had completed a first survey of the 3 billion DNA letters, or sequences, that define the human genome. Clinton compared this accomplishment to "learning the language in which God created life." Wade, with only slightly less rhetorical flourish, assures us that the sequencing of the human genome "provides the basis on which ...