FILE PHOTO: James D Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA helix and father of the Human Genome Project, stands inside a laboratory at the Baylor College of Medicine's Human Genome Sequencing Center in Houston May 31, 2007. REUTERSFILE PHOTO: James D Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA helix and father of the Human Genome Project, stands inside a laboratory at the Baylor College of Medicine's Human Genome Sequencing Center in Houston May 31, 2007. As Watson put it in "Double Helix", scientific research feels "the contradictory pulls of ambition and the sense of fair play". Just waiting to be found, the double helix opened the doors to the genetics revolution. Watson cherished the bad-boy image he presented to the world in "Double Helix," friends said, and he emphasised it in his 2007 book, "Avoid Boring People."

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