Unraveling Genes
Walnut Creek, Calif.
Another Silicon Valley scientific attraction has little to do with the innards of computers, and everything to do with the building blocks of humans. At laboratories like the Joint Genome Institute, the human genome was deciphered. The techniques used for the Human Genome Project are now applied to fish, animals, viruses and plants, and by organizing a tour, it’s possible to see the machinery used for DNA sequencing and get a detailed explanation of how it all works from someone who works there.