" L Cynthia " R Born and guide and pay close attention to the scientist: I decide in my domain

" L Cynthia " R Born and guide and pay close attention to the scientist: I decide in my domain

To numerous scientists who live a secluded life in the world, it is here if invention and creation in the laboratory can be issued>With>Go down in history enough on waiting for the academic periodical of the apex; And reached the intensity letting the government drag in many people, inquire voluntarily, perhaps a lot of people feel excessive.
But Craig Venter seems not to think so .
Under the pressure of the pressure from president's Palestinian horse and the whole society, House of Representatives Energy and Business Council of US Congress invites Venter to formate the ethics problem of biological technology and accept the hearing on May 27. And just here " L Cynthia " R The achievement of life entity of this artificial synthesis emerges on the same day, Palestinian horse urges the biological ethics committee of U.S.A. to supervise this project through the written form " Safe " R And report to the federal government, tone worries.
" The biological synthetic technology can help the mankind to get rid of the avidity to the crude oil finally. " This 63 -year-old scientist expresses in Capitol Hill of U.S.A. firmly. " The cells of our artificial synthesis are not the groundless life. Only, its parent comes from the computer project. "
Venter whether the first time, in the face of query of government, so he take notice of one's own the intersection of speech and platform even more than any time. Announce from the research institute that is named after his name that has the life, even has " Sign in individual character " R From the silk mycoplasma of the gene is when born, this unbending American had accepted a special visit of Reuter only in New York, his words are prudent.
Perhaps people can guess, this reputable scientist, investor are afraid it influences the stock price that least said, soonest mended, perhaps he still faces investors' risk pressure in the future. But enjoy a trip to in ocean of venture capital for many years, talented Venter each prove with experience of him already: Would rather go and seek refuge with the investor to come faster than ask the government to do to a boss in scientific research.
" L Play the leading role of independently " R The Human Genome Project
In 1990, the Human Genome Project in the whole world was launched, U.S.A., Great Britain, Japan, France, Germany and China joined in succession. This one utilizes the whole world The project of 30 hundred million dollars is used in the original plan Have finished human complete gene order-checking over the past 15 years . Venter at that time was still a researcher of the national hygiene research institute of U.S.A.. But during this period, he has already grasped the technology of distinguishing the cell gene fast, and apply it to recognition of the human brain gene. Hereafter, the technology become him make by whom research institute cut into a mountain in genome that 1993 establish alone still.
Venter obsessed with industrialization production thinks gradually the human genome project is in the Foolish Old Man removed the mountains. In the words of his, so time consuming a speed is slow " L Make people heart-broken " .
" We use the project can be finishedded decades to reduce traditional genetic technology until several months, several weeks, even finish in several days. " Venter explains. And his new creation and main difference between traditional technology lie in the application of the computer science and technology: Venter arranges in an order with the computer procedure simulation gene, and no longer examine the preface through being done by hand. This method crushes all genes of a cell into countless bits of DNA, offer to the checking order machine " L Decode " . The computer deals with the trifling data produced from this, and splice the password into an intact genome array little by little. Venter calls this invention " L The graupel is played to check order in France " ,One whiff will break the imposing manner of old tradition of biological engineering.
Though this kind of method was just to in the past " L The fast label checking order law " R One kind improvement,but after the scientist gave a large number of jobs to the computer, improve by speed of examining order greatly. Even criticize a lot of James of American molecule biologist of the Nobel Prize winners to Venter Watson has too to admit Venter's discovery is " L Scientific great moment " .
" The manually operated expenses cause gene sequencing this project need to consume hundreds of millions of dollars. " Venter's calculation can be said perfectly.
Since Venter gets the investment of 7000 ten thousand dollars of investor Wallace and Staenberg of the risk, he leads one's own several hundred scientists to realize and study through financing, attract the circulation of more financing through studying.
Under the leadership of Venter, what he establish fill thunder in, draw the intersection of genome and Company, launch with the intersection of the whole world and competition of the Human Genome Project. This project with commercial purpose evokes censure upon the report, fill thunder in, it draws purposes planned to study to be to want, set up, need genome database used to pay by one. So, though Venter becomes famous in a fight, his " L Attempt " R Totally unwelcome in the hereditary educational circles.
Though the intention of Venter's privatization has not been realized finally, I have been dismissed by the board of directors, but his appearance lets the Human Genome Project be finished five years ahead of time. Venter, with his old leader, American national hygiene west Sri Lankan of Fran, president of research institute too Collins mounted 2000 together Annual July>The front cover of the weekly magazine, has and attended successful ceremony of checking order of the Human Genome Project that US President Clinton presides over White House.
Formate biology : I decide in my domain
It is nearly the scientific research subsidy system that success of individualistic heroism lets Venter condemn U.S.A. more boldly this time. " Every government when allocating funds seems so overcautious. The in fact really remarkable idea is invested in by the person who needs courage, because mankind's future existence depends on the development of new science to a great extent, we can't already see scientific development with a kind of regular eyes. " Venter has said.
" Up till now, all breakthrough discoveries of mine are not the project of stemming from governmental investment completely. At the time of the human gene order-checking as we give by fast method, the government does not believe us, later on our technology is admitted, the fund of the government did not begin. Come, say to a lot of scientist wait until whom government come around to the correct way of thinking, may already getting late. " Venter regrets in speech.
Present Venter continues looking for the cooperative partner of investment to finish one's own three future goals: Making can realize the neutral bacterium of carbon, make and can produce the bacterium of the hydrogen in order to produce the fuel cell, and the invention of innovative medicine. Nowadays, he makes progress in three respects.
His group cooperates with oil company, makes methane through the carbon dioxide, and make use of the earth's crust and top layer clay, water, oil sand of mixture of petroleum and pitch to make new fuel. In addition, in Malaysia, Venter's group is still studying how to make use of local sesame oil oil and numb tree to make the raw materials of the fuel in environment protecting mode.
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