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Monday, February 8: In a shocking move that ripples throughout the Core, the Office of Brain, Shore and Verrier, providers of Science B-23, "The Human Organism," decides to drop the letters "ni" from the course title to draw gullible customers from "Sex."
"Differentiation and integration are fundamental to the dynamic maturation of the human organism." (Social Relations)
The audacious proposal was quickly denied federal funding. Venter and Smith pushed ahead anyway--and within a year they had succeeded. The publication of their 1995 paper in Science was a landmark that galvanized researchers. For the first time, the genetic secrets of an entire living organism had been exposed...
It was a brazen challenge to the scientific establishment, but Venter has a genius for making the tools of molecular biology do big things. He has decoded more genes, and faster, than anyone else in the world. He pioneered the use of automated gene sequencers. He developed the most widely...
As a result, several years were to pass before the full power of recombinant-DNA technology got into the hands of working scientists, who by then were itching to explore previously unattainable secrets of life. Happily, the proposals to control recombinant-DNA research through legislation never got close to enactment...