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Craig Venter "Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention"
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Craig Venter "Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention"

by Stewart Brand
Feb 26, 02008

Craig Venter

Decoding and recoding life

To really read DNA accurately and understand it thoroughly, you need to be able to write it from scratch and make it live, Venter explained.

His sequencing the first diploid human genome (with the genes from both parents) last year showed there is much more genetic variation between humans than first thought. His current goal is to fully sequence 10,000 humans and bring the price for each sequence down to $1,000. With that data, his says, “We’ll begin to really learn what’s nature and what’s nurture…

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