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...Craig Venter has no shortage of rivals who would love to see him fail--especially among scientists at the Human Genome Project, the multibillion-dollar government-sponsored effort to map every one of our 100,000 genes. When the millionaire molecular geneticist announced in 1998 that his company, Celera Genomics, would do the job in a third of the time at no cost to the taxpayer (thereby making the Genome Project seem like a wasted effort), the scientific community was split into two camps--one group of researchers hoping he could make good on his promise, the other predicting...
...with sweet delight that Venter announced last week that Celera had completed a rough draft of the genome months ahead of schedule and that it was on track to wrap the project up as early as this summer. Celera scientists now have 90% of the genome in their database. They have also captured 97% of all the known human genes and discovered tens of thousands of new ones--including hundreds for previously unknown neurotransmitter receptors and at least one new kind of interferon. "This is not only a monumental moment in Celera's history," Venter proclaimed in a webcast news...
...reach this promised land? Here the gene mappers part company, the scientists with the Genome Project having gone one way and Venter quite another...
...article on gene hunter Craig Venter [THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE, Jan. 11] incorrectly referred to Venter's mentor; he is Ronald Nadel, not Nadal...
...even his many critics acknowledge that Venter is a scientist with remarkable insight--indeed, a likely Nobel prizewinner. Francis Collins, who took over the Human Genome Project after Watson's departure, concedes that Venter "stirred the pot," while Watson, still Venter's severest critic, is careful to avoid public comment on their feud. But with the race entering its final laps, Venter is prepared to stake everything he has on the outcome. "In three years or so," he promises, "one of us is going to look mighty foolish...