Craig Venter, president and chief scientific officer of the Celera Genomics Group, is the kind of man who inspires stories — like this one from five months ago: Venter, now 53, is speaking at Harvard Medical School. He announces that Celera's next great undertaking will be to map the roughly 1 million proteins in every human being. He goes on to say that Celera hopes to complete its so-called proteomics project in just three years. advertisement advertisement There are people in the audience who have spent up to 15 years trying to discover and understand the function of a single protein. And here is this nervous bald guy telling them that they really needn't have wasted their time. His company will do it all — in 3 years. And the most unbelievable thing of all is that he's probably right. Given its track record, there's every reason to believe that Celera Genomics will eventually identify, and provide the architecture for understanding, most of the proteins in the human body. Celera Genomics may be the fastest company on Earth. The company opened its doors in May 1998. Since then, Venter's team has tackled the genome sequencing of the fruit fly and… Read full this story
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