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RESIGNING. J. CRAIG VENTER, 55, brash maverick scientist who raced to decipher the human genome and goaded competitors to do the same; as president of Celera Genomics, the firm he helped found in 1998. Conflict over the future of Celera, as it moves from selling gene information to developing drugs, sparked the departure...
...publishing in scientific journals this week of the twin reports on the newly decoded human genome - one by Craig Venter and his company Celera, one by the publicly funded Human Genome Project - was the end of a long and unprecedented race to unscramble humanity's Book of Life, and supposedly the beginning of new golden age of medical miracles and biotech booms...
...Venter is already accusing his biotech competition of selling access to genes that don't exist. His and the government consortium's tallies both came up with a total number of human genes between 26,000 to 40,000 (a rather fuzzy final answer in its own right), while Incyte Genomics, a Celera competitor, says it's got 120,000. Human Genome Sciences says it has identified 100,000 human genes. DoubleTwist pegs it at 65,000 to 100,000. Affymetrix sells DNA analysis chips with 60,000 genes...
...Venter, always one to boast, says his numbers are "a truth serum for the industry." He may be right; Incyte now says what it's got is the number of "messages" sent by genes, not the genes themselves. Their mistake, but maybe their profit too. Because the first consequence inflated numbers mean is that the longstanding "one gene, one protein" tenet of human biology has been thoroughly exploded. And the biotech world just got slapped in the face by a new frontier...
Jimmy Carter John Glenn George Soros Jane Goodall Harrison Ford Mikhail Gorbachev Walter Cronkite J. Craig Venter Edward O. Wilson Stephen Hawking