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So when I went up to Capitol Hill in May 1987 with the N.A.S. report in hand, I promised that long before the genome project was completed we would have cloned many of the key genes predisposing humans to Alzheimer's or to cancers of the breast and colon, all...
Back in the U.S., he blazed through college and graduate school at the University of California at San Diego in six years. After a stint at the State University of New York at Buffalo, he was recruited by NIH's neurological institute, where he worked on locating and decoding a...
Within a year, Venter had decoded 100,000 letters (the human genome has some 3.1 billion, spelling out some 50,000 different genes, at the best guess). They were hieroglyphics to him, but not, he knew, to living cells, which recognize active genes and spin off single strands of RNA...
By June 1991 he had increased the number of identified genes by 347, up from 2,000. His bosses at NIH were so pleased that they rushed to patent them, only to set off a firestorm. Watson, then head of NIH's part of the Human Genome Project (another part...
With $70 million in long-term funding from the late biotech entrepreneur Wallace Steinberg, TIGR (pronounced tiger) finally gave Venter freedom to do what he wanted. But there was a hitch. First crack at any genes it decoded went to the nonprofit institute's commercial partner, Human Genome Sciences, led...