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Craig Venter

(1946–2026) Biochemist

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Craig Venter was a biochemist.

Quick Facts About Craig Venter

Born: October 14, 1946
Died: April 29, 2026
Profession: Biochemist

About Craig Venter

[Wikidata] American biotechnologist and businessman (1946–2026)... | [Wikipedia] John Craig Venter was an American scientist, businessman, and genomics researcher. He is known for having led one of the first draft sequences of the human genome and led the first team to transfect a cell with a synthetic chromosome. Venter founded Celera Genomics, the Institute for Genomic Researc

Quotes by Craig Venter

Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.

Genome

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You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective…

Comfortable

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Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

Collectives

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I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.

Goal

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I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life…

Afterlife

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Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so…

Accurate

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Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on…

Ideas

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My complaint is that there are more books and news articles than there are primary scientific papers. I am probably the biggest…

Am

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The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

Environment

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I've gotten some pretty nice awards. I'm having trouble finding places to put them all.

Awards

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I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.

Done

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Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third…

Consequence

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We have learned nothing from the genome.

Funny

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