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- NAME: J. Craig Venter
- OCCUPATION: Entrepreneur, Biologist, Geneticist
- BIRTH DATE: October 14, 1946 (Age: 65)
- EDUCATION: University of California, San Diego
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Salt Lake City, Utah
- AKA: J. Craig Venter
- ZODIAC SIGN: Libra
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J. Craig Venter is an American scientist and businessman who played a seminal role in the first sequencing of the human genome.
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J. Craig Venter is an American scientist and businessman who played a seminal role in the first sequencing of the human genome. Venter's development of expressed sequence tags (ESTs) helped researchers rapidly decode gene sequences, including the gene responsible for a type of colon cancer. He founded Celera Genomics in 1998 and the non-profit J. Craig Reserach Institute in 2006.© 2012 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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