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J. Craig Venter was founder, Chairman, and CEO of the J. Craig Venter Institute, a nonprofit research organization. A cofounder of the biotechnology companies Celera, Synthetic Genomics, and Human Longevity Inc., he received numerous public honors and scientific awards throughout his career, including the US National Medal of Science. David Ewing Duncan is an award-winning science journalist. A contributor to Wired, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, National Public Radio, ABC News, The Atlantic, and National Geographic and the bestselling author of eleven books published in twenty-one languages, he was founding director of the Center for Life Science Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. |
