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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: During his childhood, Venter learned he loved taking risks, facing challenges, and building things.
Chapter 3: Serving as a hospital corpsman during the Vietnam War trained Venter medically and profoundly transformed his outlook on life.
Chapter 4: Venter began a meteoric scientific career at the University of California there.
Chapter 5: At the National Institutes of Health, Venter first met the idea of decoding the whole human genome there.
Chapter 6: Venter became deeply controversial for trying to patent genes and for continuing his scientific research at a private institute.
Chapter 7: Venter was the first to decode a living species’ entire genome, and was among the earliest ever to decode the human genome.
Chapter 8: Venter publicly announced the decoded human genome at the White House, and recognition for his discoveries arrived very quickly indeed.
Chapter 9: Venter now dedicates his scientific research to reading the ocean’s genome and to creating new synthetic biological organisms today.
Description
A Life Decoded (2007) is the autobiography of the prominent American biochemist and geneticist Craig Venter, who played a key role in one of the greatest scientific achievements of our time – the deciphering of the human genetic code. These blinks describe the personal experiences that drove his scientific research, even at times when his methods were attacked by the scientific community.
Who Should Listen
- Biologists, chemists, biochemists and geneticists
- Anyone curious about scientific achievements and a life dedicated to science