Opinion: Tributes to Craig Venter and the genomics race are missing something important
[RSS: www.statnews.com] A race, two rivals, a photo finish? Former National Human Genome Research Institute archivist explains what Craig Venter tributes are missing.
Opinion: Tributes to Craig Venter and the genomics race are missing something important
[RSS: www.statnews.com] A race, two rivals, a photo finish? Former National Human Genome Research Institute archivist explains what Craig Venter tributes are missing.
[RSS: www.statnews.com] A race, two rivals, a photo finish? Former National Human Genome Research Institute archivist explains what Craig Venter tributes are missing.
Two weeks ago, one of the most important scientists of the 20th century died. Craig Venter was a legend in genomics — a self-styled maverick who made a career of challenging institutional science and its methods and assumptions.
His most famous challenge to the scientific status quo came in the late 1990s, when his private company Celera announced it would beat the publicly funded Human Genome Project in the race to generate the first sequence of the human genome. It was one of the top science stories of the 20th century.
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