Basic Books of New York has just published Drawing the Map of Life: Inside the Human Genome Project by Victor K. McElheny, CAH member and trustee, who is a science journalist. The book narrates the achievement of spelling out all 3 billion subunits of human DNA, celebrated just 10 years ago, and then reviews the fireworks since. These include technical progress that has slashed the price of a total human sequence by some 10,000-fold since 2000, intellectual turmoil about what a gene is and does, and the beginnings of clinical use of genomics for diagnosis. McElheny described the book and answered questions at a well-attended author event at the Harvard Book Store on July 20, The event has been videotaped for C-SPAN. He has been doing interviews for radio stations and web sites. A review in the widely circulated journal Science said the book "cuts fresh paths into recent history... and sketches out a more complete history of genomics than previously available."