Word: venter
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...asking 10 influential people to collaborate on a letter to President Bush urging him to develop a plan to combat global warming. Noted conservationists Edward O. Wilson and Jane Goodall signed, but so did leaders from several other fields, including Walter Cronkite, John Glenn, financier George Soros and Craig Venter, who helped map the human genome. And you may not know that Harrison Ford, when he's not busy on movie sets, is an ardent environmentalist who is on the board of directors of Conservation International. Tracking down Jimmy Carter required the assistance of TIME's Hugh Sidey, and Charles...
...This is a momentous occasion for all the scientists around the world who have worked to decode the billions of letters that make up the human genome," said J. Craig Venter, president of Celera...
...France's minister of research, Roger-Gerard Schwartzenberg, triumphantly declared at a Monday press conference in Paris. He was celebrating the participation of French scientists in the Human Genome Project; other consortiums hailed from the U.S., the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada and Japan. P> At Celera Genomics, Craig Venter's private company in Rockville, Md., and at the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the publicly funded Human Genome Project, release of the groundbreaking information yielded joy tempered by a teeth-baring spirit of competition. Since last June, when scientists unveiled a preliminary sketch of the human genome, both teams have been...
...Genome Five years ahead of schedule, scientists announced that they had sequenced the 3.1 billion pairs of biochemical "letters" of human DNA, the coded instructions for building and operating a fully functional human. Fierce rivalry between J. Craig Venter, the prickly head of a private genetics company, and Dr. Francis Collins, leader of a government consortium, fueled the lightning-fast pace...
...great year for cracking codes, man's and nature's alike. The scientific high point of the year--if not of all intellectual history--was the decoding of human DNA, announced with much fanfare at the White House in late June by two scientists, J. Craig Venter and Francis Collins, whose agreement to share the credit and a podium was all the more remarkable because they can hardly stand to breathe the same air. Passions were no less intense on the Internet, where the music industry fought a rear-guard action against the forces--and free music--unleashed...