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Venter's success shocked and in some cases angered the scientific world. Watson famously dismissed Venter's sequences as work "any monkey" could do, and when their feud over the issue of patents ended, they were both out of the NIH. Watson retreated to Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., to head the research lab there. Venter started talking to investors...
With prestige and grants on the line, government and academic scientists regrouped and counterattacked. The most important naysayer, as usual, was Watson, but others quickly lined up behind him. Venter's "book of life," said one of the leaders of the federal genome program, would be a Mad magazine...
...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...
Silver even contemplates a scenario in which society splits into two camps, the "gen-rich" and the "gen-poor," those with and those without a designer genome. The prospect is disturbing, but trying to stop it might entail even more disturbing choices. "There may be problems," admits James Watson, whose co-discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953 made all this possible. "But I don't believe we can let the government start dictating the decisions people make about what sorts of families they'll have...
...James Watson and Francis Crick won a Nobel Prize for Medicine for their 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA. Watson was the first director of the Human Genome Project; he now serves as president of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory