Word: venter
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...which is the more potent shaper of the human essence?--is perennially rekindled. It flared up again in the London Observer of Feb. 11, 2001. REVEALED: THE SECRET OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR, read the banner headline. ENVIRONMENT, NOT GENES, KEY TO OUR ACTS. The source of the story was Craig Venter, the self-made man of genes who had built a private company to read the full sequence of the human genome in competition with an international consortium funded by taxes and charities. That sequence--a string of 3 billion letters, composed in a four-letter alphabet, containing the complete recipe...
...panel discussion at which Venter spoke was part of a panel commemorating the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the double helix—the structure of DNA proposed by James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953. The sequence of the chemical bases of DNA make up the genes in an individual’s genome...
...genomic era started with the first sequencing of the genome of a living organism,” Venter said. “We were in a hurry. We knew genomics would drive a new revolution...
Joshua R. Lacsina ’03 said that Venter surprised...
...wanted to cover issues of ethics, I wanted to address issues of how to regulate, and I wanted Venter because I wanted someone who is at the cutting age of research,” Juma said...