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Harvard life scientists seem to be doing particularly well this year: genomics researcher J. Craig Venter??the founder of The Institute for Geonomic Research and a visiting scholar at Harvard—is sixth in the poll, which has no bearing on whom Time’s editors ultimately choose...
...Although Venter??s role as a visiting scholar is not well defined, he will be working closely with Harvard Medical School professor Jack W. Szostak in exploring cell reconstitution, which deals with synthesizing the basic elements of the living cell...
University science spokesman B.D. Colen said that Venter??s joining the Origins of Life initiative is “extremely significant because it speaks to the seriousness of this particular effort...
...create genes that don’t preexist in nature and will thus be more specialized.The primary issue at hand is one of safety, not ethics. A Canadian action group named Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC) has been a consistent critic of synbio research and plans to challenge Venter??s patent application. Two commonly cited risks of this research include the possibility for “bio-terror,” which is the use of new and potentially devastating bioweaponry by terrorist groups, and “bio-error,” which includes any inadvertent injury...
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