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
It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for disease and our view of our place on the biological continuum.
I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.
Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.
Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.
Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.
Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.
The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.
When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants.