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Matt Ridley
(2000) Fourth Estate, London.
ISBN: 1 85702 835 X (Paperback, 344 pages)
There are four sorts of books about the human genome project: those that deal with the biology; those that tackle the politics of the enterprise; those that examine its potential consequences and others which combine several of these aspects. Matt Ridley's 'Genome' falls mainly into the first category and quite simply it is the best in its class.
Kevin Davies
(2002) Orion, London (Updated edition).
ISBN: 0753813165 (Paperback, 230 pages)
In the 1970s, the plant physiologist Witham Fogg suggested that all plant physiology texts should be printed as disposable paperbacks, so that they could be thrown away once their contents were superseded by more recent findings. That advice could be applied to most books about the human genome, although unusually it doesn't apply to this one.
Andrew Niccol, Director
(1997) Columbia Tristar Home video.
DVD Video (English and German soudtrack with subtitles in English, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Icelandic, Hindi, Hebrew, German, Turkish, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Greek and Norwegian)
Regions: 2. Running time: 102 minutes.
GATTACA is set in a future where there are two classes of people: 'Valids', whose parents have selected their genetic attributes before birth, and the lower-status 'In-valids' who are the result of natural conception. Even more despised are those with 'borrowed ladders' - individuals who masquerade as others by buying samples of their DNA.