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...Though they avoided a face-to-face meeting, the TIME forum heard from both Francis Collins and J. Craig Venter, the rival leaders of the public and private human genome projects. Collins, describing himself as both exhilarated and terrorized in the aftermath of his team's great sequencing effort, announced ambitious new goals. These include sequencing all 23 pairs of human chromosomes, applying genomics to the treatment of specific diseases, developing gene-spotting systems for early detection of disease and expanding genome studies to larger populations so as to pinpoint the role of genetic differences in disease...
...Venter, similarly, stressed that the sequencing effort was just a starting point for much more science. He said an immediate target should be reducing the cost of sequencing an individual genome to $1,000 or less in the next decode or so. This would be a powerful tool, he said, to catch diseases like colon cancer years before the onset of observable symptoms when there is a 90 percent or better chance of curing them. "We would give power to the individual to know their own risk of disease," he said...
...Craig Venter and colleagues are first to decode the genome of a free-living organism, the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae...
...Venter and Francis Collins announce together that they have sequenced the human genome...
...extraordinary event featuring as distinguished a gathering of scientific luminaries as I've ever seen. Among the speakers: Jim Watson and Hamilton Smith, both Nobel prizewinners for their work on DNA; Pulitzer prizewinning entomologist and sociobiologist E.O. Wilson; genome mappers Francis Collins and J. Craig Venter; John Gearhart, who isolated the fetal embryonic stem cell; Dean Hamer, the leading expert on behavior genes; plant geneticist Ingo Potrykus; neuroscientists Dr. Wise Young and Rudolph Tanzi; inventors Jaron Lanier and Raymond Kurzweil; software gurus Bill Joy and John Gage; environmentalists Thomas Lovejoy and Brian Halweil; ethicists Daniel Callahan of the Hastings Institute...