A review by vegebrarian
Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life by J. Craig Venter

3.0

This book may be deserving of 5 stars but I won't ever know. It's not for the casual reader unless you are well versed in biology, which sadly I am not. I understood about 30% of what I was reading (and that is being generous to me). The last few chapters were much more accessible than the first. I particularly enjoyed reading of the students involved in "open source biology", the speed of vaccination creation for communicable diseases and finding life of Mars. The digital sequencing of our DNA was described with amazing detail, perhaps too much detail to hold my interest. Venter and his team are doing amazing work and I think that the future of our species will only benefit from his discoveries.