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GENE MAVEN Five years ago, Deon Venter was an expert in diseases, not sports. As chief pathologist for the Melbourne-based company Genetic Technologies, he focused on genetic links to breast cancer and epilepsy. But something happened to change all that...
...Venter, whose one-year appointment started March 1, will be working with Harvard scientists to further synthetic biology research by creating artificial cells...
Dimitar D. Sasselov, who directs the Origins of Life Initiative, met Venter at a small conference on the concept of life held in Connecticut last August. The two discovered their shared interest in synthetic biology, and Venter expressed interest in joining the Initiative...
...Venter is also the founder and president of the J. Craig Venter Institute for genomic research...
Though his staff assistant said that “people like Craig are usually not available at the drop of a hat,” Venter summed up his motivations for joining the initiative in a very short phone interview yesterday, before jetting off to India. Venter said that the group he is joining is “incredible” and that this is what made the prospect of coming to Harvard “attractive...