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
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.
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.
We're a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities.
My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.
We know virtually all of the genes known to mammals. We do not know all of the combinations.
We're moving from reading the genetic code to writing it.