"Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature."
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Craig Venter, born on October 14, 1946, is a pioneering American biologist and entrepreneur famed for his pivotal role in the Human Genome Project and the creation of synthetic life. With a relentless curiosity, Venter's innovative approaches have revolutionized genomics and biotechnology. He founded the J. Craig Venter Institute, which continues to explore the boundaries of synthetic biology. His legacy lies in advancing our understanding of DNA and fostering the potential for tailored medical therapies, marking him as a visionary in the field of life sciences.
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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 you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them."
Craig Venter"Most people don't realize it, because they're invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth's biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass."
Craig Venter"Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective."
Craig Venter"The day is not far off when we will be able to send a robotically controlled genome-sequencing unit in a probe to other planets to read the DNA sequence of any alien microbe life that may be there."
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"I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment."
Craig Venter"'Bloomberg's, you know, for people who don't use the service, provides through the Internet - through specialized computers - information about the financial world. It's a very large data base. I think they have on the order of a billion dollars or more a year in revenue."
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