SOFT, UNSWEET, BLAND, with a touch of acid and a hint of salt. It doesn’t
have a good finish, just fades away. Sounds like a dull wine, doesn’t it? But
this is a billion-dollar taste: DNA itself.
After all the reports on the sequencing of the human genome detailing clashes
over priority, and claims and counterclaims about commercial exploitation versus
free public use, one journalist found a new twist. The New Yorker’s
Richard Preston profiled Celera’s Craig Venter in advance of the big
announcement that the genome had been sequenced.
He reports that one of Celera’s scientists, Nobel prizewinner Hamilton…
