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Cracking the genetic code

Biology's version of the Book of Life is being written, in part, on the 14th through 16th floors of a gleaming medical tower at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.

Mr Les Sillars

Most workers are under 30 and hold 'entry-level' positions. Few hold graduate degrees and some haven't finished college. It seems an unlikely setting for what President Clinton in March called 'the scientific breakthrough of the century, perhaps of all time.'