It’s finally all about him.By “him,” of course, we mean J. Craig Venter, the iconoclastic scientist who had his entire genome sequenced, posted in a public database, and analyzed in a scientific paper published Monday in the online journal PLoS Biology. Dave Hamilton writes about it at VentureBeat LifeSciences, and what it means.
Hamilton’s bottom line: “We may share only about 99.5 percent of our DNA with other people, instead of the 99.9 percent that many scientists estimated several years back. Stop the presses!”
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