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
Society and medicine treat us all as members of populations, whereas as individuals we are all unique, and population statistics do not apply.
There's a lot of what I call 'bio-babble' and hype out there from a lot of bioenergy companies.
You can't have life without the genetic code.
The future of society is 100% dependent on scientific advances.
The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life.
The chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce.
The day is not far off when we will be able to send a robotically controlled genome-sequencing unit in a probe to other planets to read the DNA sequence of any alien microbe life that may be there.
All these names are bigger-than-life names, ... When you see their actual letters and their notebooks, it puts a real stamp of humanity on these people.
The gene 'klotho' was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity.
The Janus-like nature of innovation - its responsible use and so on - was evident at the very birth of human ingenuity, when humankind first discovered how to make fire on demand.
The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.
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.
Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.
Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.