Craig Venter

Big Pharma Company Battles To Buy Gene Science Firm

Reuters | Ben Hirschler | Posted 04.25.2012

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By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said on Wednesday its $2.6 billion bid for long-time partner Human Genome...

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Historians, Artist Get Prestigious Award

AP | Posted 03.01.2012

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TEL AVIV, Israel -- South African artist William Kentridge, British historian Sir Martin Gilbert and American scientist David Botstein are among the w...

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WATCH: Prejudice In The Brain: Can You Break Your Biased Habits?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.10.2012

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How do we choose who to call a friend? An enemy?

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Hug Me! I'm Vaccinated

Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.05.2012

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Why, if a free flu vaccination is offered to you only steps from your desk, would you opt not to partake? It's time to cut down the myths.

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Tom Friedman and Steve Jobs: Situational Versus Sustainable Values

Brent Green | Posted 12.14.2011

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We may be experiencing difficult times, but our problems run deeper and wider than the actions or non-actions of a single generation.

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Literature Leaps into the 22nd Century, Lands Awkwardly

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

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As scientists improve their ability to manipulate the genome, will a market might emerge for people who want to imprint quotes into their own DNA, or even their children's, as a sort of genetic tattoo?

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The Presidential Commission and Synthetic Biology

Michael Rugnetta | Posted 05.25.2011

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The promise of the field of synbio as a whole is that scientists will be able to employ this type of genome synthesis to create customized life forms for a wide array of purposes. The peril is exactly the same as the promise.

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Creating "Synthetic" Life

Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 11.17.2011

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Once scientists become nimble at synthesizing the human genome, will they use that technology wisely? Who decides how and when the technology should be employed? And how can those decisions be enforced?

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Venters Not the First to Invent Synthetic Life

Charles Warner | Posted 05.25.2011

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J. Craig Venters's seriously overreached when he claimed last week that his lab was the first to create synthetic life. Television has been creating synthetic life on a massive scale for decades and video games have been doing it for years.

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Wind, Meet Whirlwind

David Horton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Intelligent Design, Evolution, Ecology, Oil Spill, Craig Venter, Creating Life, Green News

The idea that an invented species, alien to all environments, can be casually introduced in large numbers to, say, clean up an oil spill, without any unintended consequences flies in the face of hundreds of years of experiments.

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Venter's Celebrity Bacterium: The Faucet Drip That Would Be a Monsoon

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gene Engineering, Synthetic Life, Exaggeration, DNA Sequencing, Craig Venter, Artificial Life, Technology News

The Craig Venter endeavor was expensive, glitzy -- and banal. My advice to bioethicists is to save their energy for truly fearsome items.

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Top 10 Medical Events Of The Decade

Dr. Dean Ornish | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Angioplasty, Limb Regeneration, Mammography, Epigenetics, Synthetic Genomics, Childhood Obesity, Stents, Globalization, Slidehuge, Dr. Judah Folkman, Obesity, Wellness, Integrative Medicine, Angiogenesis, Medical News, Dna, Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, Health, Dr. Dean Ornish, Genetics, Diabetes, Telomeres, Telomerase, Craig Venter, Healthy Living News

In writing about the top 10 medical events of the decade, I first began writing about the latest high-tech breakthroughs in genomics, stem cell research, angiogenesis, and so on.

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Daily Mail: Artificial Life Will Be Created "Within Months" As Genome Experts Claim Vital Breakthrough

The Daily Mail | Posted 05.25.2011

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Artificial life will be made to order in the laboratory within four months, a controversial biologist has claimed. U.S genome expert Craig Venter, sa...

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Craig Venter Wants To Brew Fuel From CO2

Treehugger.com | Jeremy Elton Jacquot | Posted 05.25.2011

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This week's issue of Newsweek features an interview with Craig Venter, the "bad boy" of science whose work developing new bacterial strains capable of...

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