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...most important scientific milestones of the century--the cracking of the human genetic code--two men stood together on a White House podium to share the credit. As leaders of competing genome projects, Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, and J. Craig Venter, president of Celera Genomics, were recognized, correctly, as the two most important players in the worldwide effort to spell out the 3 billion "letters" of the human genome--the biochemical recipe, encoded in our DNA, for manufacturing and operating a complete human being...
Throughout the history of science, people like Venter have been ridiculed for conducting science in an unorthodox manner, only to be applauded years later for their great work. That such a bold achievement was reached in part by a maverick scientist is a fitting introduction to a new era of medicine. HAROUT MEKHJIAN JR. Alpine...
With the mapping of the human genome by J. Craig Venter and Francis Collins [SCIENCE, July 3], man will be able to lengthen his life-span by eradicating many of the existing causes of disease and death. And this breakthrough raises the ethical question of how to care for those nonproductive individuals who will eventually overwhelm Social Security and private retirement plans. ERLAND R. NIELSEN Pahrump...
Kudos to everyone involved in the Human Genome Project for achieving a monumental milestone. The real winner of the race to map the genome is not Venter; his company, Celera Genomics; or Collins. The real winner is mankind. It is now up to us to use this valuable information responsibly. ADITYA PAI Toronto...
Most of all, they'll try to avoid publicly criticizing each other. "All of us in this room," Venter told TIME last Thursday, "have found a way to put the human emotions behind us. There are things we have all said that, given a rational condition, we wish we hadn't said." Said Collins simply: "I heartily agree." With any luck, their bitter dispute, which has loomed so large for so long, will be a minor footnote in the genomic revolution that has barely begun...