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...ensure he'd have the resources to make good on that boast, Venter joined hands with global technology giant Perkin-Elmer, forming a new company called Celera, which took its name from the middle of the word accelerate. The Celera-backed Venter and the NIH-backed Collins briefly explored collaborating, but those efforts fell through, and over the next two years the two camps worked feverishly, occasionally volleying in the press over whose method was better or whose intentions were purer. Collins sniffed at Venter's plans to create a genome database whose basic map he would make available...
...high times did not last long. Back at Celera, the competing interests of a free public database and a corporation's stockholders proved hard to reconcile, and just two years after the White House ceremony, Venter was fired by the board. For solace, he decided to get away. Still a sailing enthusiast, he hit on a grand plan to mimic the journey of the H.M.S. Challenger, the vessel that in the 1870s conducted the first global mission to sample life from the oceans of the world. Venter would circumnavigate the globe with a crew of scientists and sailors and every...
...controversial move, Venter had his own genome sequenced by his company, Celera Genomics, and then published an analysis of the sequence in the journal Science, even though he originally claimed the sequences were taken from anonymous donors...
...heading up four nonprofit genomics groups, Celera Genomics' former CEO discussed his latest interests, notably the development of synthetic microbes that could be used to produce inexpensive, nonpolluting alternatives to fossil fuels like hydrogen. Asked if it was really true, as one magazine recently reported, that his ambition was nothing less than to save the planet, Venter thought for a milli-second, then allowed, "Well, we want to make a start...
...Celera Genomics, which mapped the human genome, has a new leader: Ordonez, 51, former chief of the firm's genetic diagnostic division. An avid runner, she is respected within Celera but little known outside. Tony White, chairman of parent company Applera, says Ordonez has "a track record of turning technology into money...