The Gene Machine

摘要

Craig venter has no shortage of rivals who would love to see him fail-especially among scientists at the Human Genome Project, the multi-billion-dollar government-sponsored effort to map every one of our 100,000 genes. When the millionaire molecular geneticist announced in 1998 that his company, Celera Genomics, would do the job in a third of the time at no cost to the taxpayer (thereby making the Genome Project seem like a wasted effort), the scientific community was split into two camps-one group of researchers hoping he could make good on his promise, the other predicting he would fall flat on his face.