Life Script: How the Human Genome Discoveries Will Transform Medicine and Enhance Your Health

With the decoding of the human genome, researchers can now read the script in which evolution has written the program for the design and operation of the human body. A new generation of medical treatments is at hand. Researchers are developing therapies so powerful that there is now no evident obstacle to the ancient goal of conquering most major diseases.
Nicholas Wade has covered the sequencing of the genome, as well as other health and science stories, for The New York Times, in the cou...