Craig Venter on Stephen Colbert
Colbert asks Venter such pressing questions as "When you decoded your genome was there any marker there proving that you're some sort of narcissistic egomaniac?"
Thanks to Gillian for the pointer!
Earlier on blog.bioethics.net:
+ Craig Venter on the ethics of creating synthetic organisms
+ What is Craig Venter up to now?
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This thing that he has done is huge. It can solve the energy crisis, help us on the origin of life, and a lot of other things. There are a lot of ethical issues in this as well though. If people want to patent anything that they create, is it ok that it's a living thing?
- by Brenen on Nov 12, 2007 at 2:43 PM | link
That question was already answered, I think, with onco-mouse.
- by emily on Nov 13, 2007 at 9:06 AM | link