venter is such a show off. after wining the human genome race, he sailed around the world, collecting dna samples, and doubled the number of all known genes. then he claimed to have created “synthetic life”, and now this. the man clearly has enormous talent, but i wonder if he is as insufferable as the biography suggests.

Craig Venter and Jonathan Rothberg are competing to put a DNA sequencing machine on Mars, each claiming that it is the best way to search for and confirm Marian life. “This will work only if the DNA on Mars is exactly the same in its fundamental structure as on Earth. It is very unlikely that terran DNA is the only structure able to support Darwinian evolution.” Though I lean slightly toward Venter. Some of the chemistry of DNA life has been shown to imply have the best combinations of stability and just the right breakability and attachment probabilities in the bonds.

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