Craig Venter
<p>excerpt via <b><i>Martine Rothblatt and the Human Future</i></b>
[...] “She’s an outstanding conceptual salesperson,” says her friend and fellow futurist Ray Kurzweil. ... With Kurzweil, ... Martine has invested in research, based at MIT, into stem-cell-like cancer therapies. And her friend Craig Venter, who was among the first scientists to sequence the human genome, has joined her project to raise pigs for organ transplantation into human subjects. Martine herself owns a pig farm called Revivacor, and expects to conduct a successful pig-human transplant by the end of the decade. Last year she got her pilot’s license, so that she might speedily transport pig organs to waiting human patients.<br />
... Kurzweil, who is a director of engineering at Google (which has just established a new company, Calico, devoted to life extension), is one of the nation’s most prominent popularizers of the idea of digital immortality, and Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal, has contributed more than $3.5 million of his own money to ending aging. [...]
source: <a href="http://www.aboutthesky.com/smallstorm-blog/387-martine-rothblatt">http://www.aboutthesky.com/smallstorm-blog/387-martine-rothblatt</a>
[ht: <a href="http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2015/06/RIR-150605.php">RIR</a>]</p>
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<p >"American-born biochemist-geneticist J. Craig Venter is acknowledged, along with geneticist Francis Sellers Collins (1950-), as being a primary force behind the Human Genome Project. Venter, with private funding, and Collins, with public funding, independently mapped and sequenced human DNA. Their reports appeared in 2001 (one in <em>Nature</em> and the other in <em>Science</em>). A sheet of 5 stamps (Scott No. 561) issued by Palau in 1999 provides an opportunity to honor J. Craig Venter indirectly. The sheet was issued to commemorate advances in science and medicine in the 20th century. One of the stamps representing the Human Genome Project shows the overall structure of DNA."
source: <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3068906/">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3068906/</a></p>