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...most important scientific milestones of the century--the cracking of the human genetic code--two men stood together on a White House podium to share the credit. As leaders of competing genome projects, Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, and J. Craig Venter, president of Celera Genomics, were recognized, correctly, as the two most important players in the worldwide effort to spell out the 3 billion "letters" of the human genome--the biochemical recipe, encoded in our DNA, for manufacturing and operating a complete human being...
...monkeys"). So he and Claire Fraser, his wife and collaborator, left to found a private research firm, called the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), where in 1994 he upped the gene-sequencing ante to a new level. At the urging of medicine Nobelist Hamilton Smith, now a Celera scientist, Venter decided to use a technique called shotgunning to sequence the entire genome of a living organism, the H. influenzae bacterium (a bug that causes ear and respiratory infections...
Kudos to everyone involved in the Human Genome Project for achieving a monumental milestone. The real winner of the race to map the genome is not Venter; his company, Celera Genomics; or Collins. The real winner is mankind. It is now up to us to use this valuable information responsibly. ADITYA PAI Toronto...
Having signed up five major pharmaceutical houses as well as Vanderbilt University, Venter says Celera has jumped ahead of all its rivals, with revenue doubling every year. Celera's stock has gyrated wildly from $15 a share to more than $320 and down to $50 in the space of a year, so Wall Street obviously can't make up its mind about the company. But, says Venter, "our business model is working terrifically." He expects profitability in another couple of years...
...more human genomes, probably including his own ("Why not, if that's the business I'm in?" he asks, admitting nothing). After the mouse, he'll probably go on to the chimp, among our closest primate kin, and explore plant genes, including rice and corn. He is also taking Celera into the emerging field of proteomics--understanding how genes make and manage proteins, the actual building blocks of life...