Brown A (2003) "In the Beginning Was the Worm: Finding the Secrets of Life in a Tiny Hermaphrodite"

Brown A

[2003]

This is the story of how three men won the Nobel Prize for their research on the humble nematode worm C. elegans; how their extraordinary discovery led to the sequencing of the human genome; how a global multibillion-dollar industry was born; and how the mysteries of life were revealed in a tiny, brainless worm.