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...were setting out to design a human being from scratch, odds are you wouldn't take J. Craig Venter as your template. You wouldn't choose to put him at risk for Alzheimer's disease, for example, but Venter has a predisposition that places him in danger of it. You might choose his startling blue eyes, both for their color and the hard clarity of their gaze. You'd surely go for his first-rate brain, though you might pass on what his detractors consider the vainglorious temperament that comes bundled with...
...something of an irony then that such an imperfect organism as Venter has devoted much of his career to understanding the engineering of other organisms. He was the leader of one of two teams that in 2000 sequenced the human genome-the entire 25,000-gene cookbook that makes us people in the first place and not chimps or birds or banana trees - and he has conducted the same work with many other organisms. But Venter, 61, may have just done something that is at once more thrilling and promising and unsettling than all that. According to a just-released...
Bioengineer J. Craig Venter is expected to announce within the next few months, perhaps weeks, that he and his company, Synthetic Genomics of Rockvile, Md. and La Jolla, Calif., have created Earth’s first artificial life form. The feat will be an important milestone in the growing scientific world of “synthetic biology” (synbio). If you haven’t heard of synthetic biology yet, you are not alone. Research in this groundbreaking field is advancing light years ahead of public awareness, but decisions made now will have implications for everyone within the next...
...going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it.' CRAIG VENTER, U.S. genetic researcher, on news that his team was preparing to announce the creation of the world's first synthetic chromosome, a stepping stone to creating artificial life...
LOOKING AHEAD Venter's breakthrough, says genome expert Dr. Edward Rubin, means individual DNA sequencing is inevitable: "It's not clear whether it'll be 10 years or 50 years, but in our lifetime, this will happen...