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Craig Venter

Craig Venter

American Scientist

Born: Oct 14, 1946

Life People Science Think Will You

Related authors: Ben Carson Carl Sagan E. O. Wilson George Washington Carver Isaac Asimov Margaret Mead Neil deGrasse Tyson W. Edwards Deming

You can imagine: 99 percent of your experiments fail for one reason or another. Craig Venter

You Percent Fail Another Experiments Your Reason Imagine

Traditional autobiography has generally had a poor press. The novelist Daphne du Maurier condemned all examples of this literary form as self-indulgent. Others have quipped that autobiography reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. Craig Venter

Traditional ways of distinguishing populations are irrelevant in terms of genetic code. Craig Venter

Ways Distinguishing Genetic Terms Traditional Irrelevant Code

Mitochondrial DNA is in higher concentration, lasts longer, and can be extracted from bones. Craig Venter

Extracted Lasts Higher Longer Concentration Bones

I don't see any absolute biological limit on human age. Craig Venter

Age See Absolute Limit Any Human Biological

In the past, geneticists have looked at so-called disease genes, but a lot of people have changes in their genes and don't get these diseases. There have to be other parts of physiology and genetics that compensate. Craig Venter

People Past Other Changes Physiology Genes Geneticist Genetics Looked Parts Lot Get Disease Diseases So-Called In The Past Compensate

We're moving from reading the genetic code to writing it. Craig Venter

Writing Reading Genetic Moving Code

Early on, when you're working in a new area of science, you have to think about all the pitfalls and things that could lead you to believe that you had done something when you hadn't, and, even worse, leading others to believe it. Craig Venter

There are enzymes called restriction enzymes that actually digest DNA. Craig Venter

Digest Restriction Actually

The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially. Craig Venter

Life Increasing Has-Been Been Pace Exponentially

The photosynthesis we see with plants is not very efficient. Algaes are more efficient. Craig Venter

Plants See More Very Efficient

Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it. Craig Venter

Future Will Build Sit Down Design Hundred Percent Sometime Computer Terminal Am Scientists Want Certain Organism

Is my science of a level consistent with other people who have gotten the Nobel? Yes. Craig Venter

Science People Other Consistent Nobel Gotten Yes Who Level

I have a blend of klotho gene variants that have been linked with a lower risk for coronary artery disease and stroke and an advantage in longevity. Craig Venter

Stroke Gene Risk Advantage Blend Longevity Been Linked Disease Lower

When I started my Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, I was told that it would be difficult to make a new discovery in biology because it was all known. It all seems so absurd now. Craig Venter

Difficult Biology Would Would-Be Seems Absurd New California Make Known Because Discovery Diego San San Diego Now Started University University Of California

Part of the problem with the discovery of the so-called breast-cancer genes was that physicians wrongly told women that had the genetic changes associated with the genes that they had a 99% chance of getting breast cancer. Turns out all women that have these genetic changes don't get breast cancer. Craig Venter

My greatest fear is not the abuse of technology but that we will not use it at all. Craig Venter

Technology Fear Will Abuse Greatest Use

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