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
We're a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities.
We said that once we had finished sequencing the genome we would make it available to the scientific community for free, ... And we will be doing that on Monday morning at 10am.
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.
Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code.
You cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another.
You can imagine: 99 percent of your experiments fail for one reason or another.
You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA.
When you think of all the things that are made from oil or in the chemical industry, if in the future we could find cells to replace most of those processes, the ideal way would be to do it by direct design.
We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before.
We're moving from reading the genetic code to writing it.
The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially.
There is a long history of how DNA sequencing can bring certainty to people's lives.
There are enzymes called restriction enzymes that actually digest DNA.