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Venter, Craig

[person]

(born 1946) American geneticist and entrepreneur, renown for leading the charge to sequence the human genome. While a researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Venter developed a technique called expressed sequence tags (ESTs) that made rapid sequencing possible. In 1998, he started Celera Genomics, a privately funded company, to pursue genome projects.


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