A Machine to Make a Future: Biotech ChroniclesA Machine to Make a Future represents a remarkably original look at the present and possible future of biotechnology research in the wake of the mapping of the human genome. The central tenet of Celera Diagnostics the California biotech company whose formative work during 2003 is the focus of the book is that the emergent knowledge about the genome, with its profound implications for human health, can now be turned into a powerful diagnostic apparatus