Craig Venter
Craig Venter
John Craig Venteris an American biotechnologist, biochemist, geneticist, and entrepreneur. He is known for being one of the first to sequence the human genome and the first to transfect a cell with a synthetic genome. Venter founded Celera Genomics, The Institute for Genomic Researchand the J. Craig Venter Institute, and is now CEO of Human Longevity Inc. He was listed on Time magazine's 2007 and 2008 Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. In 2010, the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth14 October 1946
CountryUnited States of America
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I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.
We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all.
You can imagine: 99 percent of your experiments fail for one reason or another.
Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them.
'Bloomberg's, you know, for people who don't use the service, provides through the Internet - through specialized computers - information about the financial world. It's a very large data base. I think they have on the order of a billion dollars or more a year in revenue.
As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.
You cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another.
When I started my Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, I was told that it would be difficult to make a new discovery in biology because it was all known. It all seems so absurd now.
There have been lots of stories written about all the hype over getting the genome done and the letdown of not discovering lots of cures right after.
We all evolved out of the same three or four groups in Africa, as black Africans.
Mitochondrial DNA is in higher concentration, lasts longer, and can be extracted from bones.
My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.
One of the things about genetics that has become clearer as we've done genomes - as we've worked our way through the evolutionary tree, including humans - is that we're probably much more genetic animals than we want to confess we are.
One important part of scientific training is that scientists learn the boundaries, the safety issues, how to properly deal with and dispose of chemicals and reagents.