RIP John Sulston, open science hero and father of the Human Genome Project
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3HRZE)
John Sulston has died at the age of 75; I worked with him through the Wellcome Sanger institute, where he undertook the Human Genome Project, where a fully sequenced human genome was decoded and published as open-access science that anyone could study and use. (more")