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Lee Hood did that rarest of things. He enabled scientists to see things they couldn’t see before and do things they hadn’t dreamed of doing. Scientists can now sequence complete human genomes in a day, setting in motion a revolution that is personalizing medicine.

Hood, a son of the American West, was perhaps an unlikely candidate to transform biology. But with ferocious drive, he led a team at Caltech that developed the automated DNA sequencer, the tool that paved the way for the Human Genome Project. He captivated scientists with his almost religious fervor for the new biology enabled by the machines. Michael Crichton put the “Hood Sequencer” in his novel Jurassic Park.

Hood’s brilliance, rebellion, enthusiasm, and ego earned him as many admirers as enemies. His management style, once described as “creative anarchy,” alienated many. Collaborators seethed, claiming he took too much credit. Fellow Caltech biologists charged that his empire building was out of control and ousted him as their chairman. A fraud in his lab made him consider, for a moment, quitting science.

Wooed by money from Bill Gates, Hood started over at the University of Washington. His impatience for rules burned bridges once again. Hood left at age sixty-one to start his own institute. Would he finally achieve the ultimate application of the genome project—personalized medicine?

In Hood: Trailblazer of the Genomics Age, award-winning journalist Luke Timmerman tells the story of this forceful personality who, living at the edge of science and technology, transformed our world.

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