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"There are over 40 articles arranged into chapters which cover: ""Genetics as History"" - with articles on how the study of genes has helped decode the events of long ago; ""Discovering Human Genes"" - featuring the discovery of the gene that triggers Huntington's disease; ""The New Science of Genomics"" - reporting on the race among labs around the world to be the first to decode the human genome; ""The Architecture of DNA"" - including coverage of the achievement of cloning - first of Dolly the sheep, then mice; ""Building an Organism"" - revealing how embryos become the creatures they are destined to be; and ""Genes and Disease"" - which observes the cutting-edge research on the roles that genes play in cancer and its treatment."

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Nicholas Wade is a science reporter for The New York Times. He was the editor of Science Times from 1990 through 1996. Previously the Washington correspondent and deputy editor of Nature, Wade is the author of The Ultimate Experiment, The Nobel Duel, Betrayers of the Truth (with William J. Broad), and A World Beyond Healing. Wade was born in England and currently lives in New Jersey.

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