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Abdallah S. Daar in reviewing this new book by NIH director Francis Collins maintains that “we have entered the era of rapid, inexpensive genetic testing and genome sequencing” and must simply come to terms with the phenomenon of personal genomics and consumer genetics. In the next decade, he predicts, the cost of sequencing a human genome will drop to a few hundred dollars. The cost for the Human Genome Project was about $3 billion over 13 years.
The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine
By Francis S. Collins
Harper/Profile. 2010. 368 pp/288 pp.
$26.99.
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