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Dismissing concerns that revealing individuals’ genetic makeup could lead to discrimination, entrepreneur and scientist J. Craig Venter said Friday that since everyone has faulty copies of some genes, employers and insurance companies would not be able to discriminate if genetic records were made public...
...study of all of the genetic information in organisms, called genomics, will profoundly affect our society, Venter said in a panel discussion at the Kennedy School of Government Friday...
...controversial move, Venter had his own genome sequenced by his company, Celera Genomics, and then published an analysis of the sequence in the journal Science, even though he originally claimed the sequences were taken from anonymous donors...
...Venter said that fears of discrimination by employers and insurance companies—based on inherited risk factors contained in individual genomes—are unfounded because “as soon as we sequence everyone’s code, we will all be insurable...
...Genomics' former CEO discussed his latest interests, notably the development of synthetic microbes that could be used to produce inexpensive, nonpolluting alternatives to fossil fuels like hydrogen. Asked if it was really true, as one magazine recently reported, that his ambition was nothing less than to save the planet, Venter thought for a milli-second, then allowed, "Well, we want to make a start...