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Photo by Bob Boston
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Book smart
Sir John Sulston -- winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine -- signs The Common Thread: A Story of Science, Politics, Ethics and the Human Genome, for research associate Shiaw-Pyng Yang, Ph.D., at a book signing held at the Genome Sequencing Center last month. Throughout the book, Sulston prominently details his collaboration with Robert Waterson, M.D., Ph.D., director of the University's sequencing center. "I just heard the prison door shut behind us," Sulston begins the book, as he and Waterson wait on the platform of the Long Island Rail Road station after attending a symposium on the biology of the nematode worm in May 1989. From there, the book offers a behind-the-scenes look at the controversial and riveting story of the Human Genome Project.
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