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Craig Venter has no shortage of rivals who would love to see him fail--especially among scientists at the Human Genome Project, the multibillion-dollar government-sponsored effort to map every one of our 100,000 genes. When the millionaire molecular geneticist announced in 1998 that his company, Celera Genomics, would do the job in a third of the time at no cost to the taxpayer (thereby making the Genome Project seem like a wasted effort), the scientific community was split into two camps--one group of researchers hoping he could make good on his promise, the other predicting...
...with sweet delight that Venter announced last week that Celera had completed a rough draft of the genome months ahead of schedule and that it was on track to wrap the project up as early as this summer. Celera scientists now have 90% of the genome in their database. They have also captured 97% of all the known human genes and discovered tens of thousands of new ones--including hundreds for previously unknown neurotransmitter receptors and at least one new kind of interferon. "This is not only a monumental moment in Celera's history," Venter proclaimed in a webcast news...