"It is extremely important not to let the individuals who perpetrated these acts control our lives. I'm not controlled by them. We must all act in a normal fashion," he began, and then launched into an account of activities at Celera, past and future. But it was an unexpected musing about the uncertain present that explained his opening comments, and left the audience spellbound.
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 Craig Venter |
Venter began by speaking, like a father bragging about his firstborn, about Haemophilus influenzae, the organism that occupies a place in history as the first to have its genome sequenced.1 It is a bittersweet memory, marking one of several stops on Venter's career path where his ideas were dismissed as incredible. First came expressed sequence tag (EST) technology, over which he left the National Institutes of Health to found the not-for-profit The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville in 1991. In ...
