Craig Venter is no ordinary scientist, and no ordinary man. He is the first human being ever to read their own DNA - and see the key to life itself. This book tells the story of his life: from teenage rebel and Vietnam medic, to sailor and maverick researcher, whose race to unravel the sequence of the human genome made him both hero and pariah.
In June 2000, for the first time in human history, scientists were able to unravel the mysteries contained within our genetic code. Craig Venter is the brilliant maverick who had made this happen. And since then, he has gone on to decode the whole of his own genome, the first complete genome of any single human being. In A LIFE DECODED he tells his extraordinary life story: a tale that includes presidents, prime ministers and kings, princes of capitalism and science, but also a voyage of discovery through Venter's self-examination, his scientific accomplishments and his own genetic code.
