In a short time we will have transliterated the human genome, played out
many parts of it in cells, and gotten some difficult passages translated
for us in transgenic animals. Then we will begin hunting for the passages
we want most to know about, the ones responsible for our humanity and, if
not our souls, then our ability to imagine souls. What we have found so
far suggests that it will be impossible to know ourselves this way, but
we could easily do great damage to future fellow citizens by trying. As
a friend once said to make me reconsider a particularly seductive experiment,
if it isn't worth doing, it isn't worth doing well.
DNA UNRAVELED
�� ROBERT POLLACK
Interpreting the code of life
by Robert Pollack
Genome data in the public domain: unleashed synergies
by Laura Newman
Homeosis and the tradition behind this year's nobel
by Claudio D. Stern
The dilemma of genetic testing: do we want to be "knowledge-macho"?
by Steve Benowitz
Digital Soup: DNA as a computational device
by Mark Fischetti
The other DNA: research on mitochondrial diseases
by Eric A. Schon and Salvatore DiMauro
DNA as a forensic instrument
by Mark Fischetti
Molecular biology and the polis, or, What's worth doing well?
by Robert Pollack
