Life—As We Know It—Is in His Hands
Our DNA Is Software. And J. Craig Venter’s Going to Code Us All.
We’ve reached a pivotal moment in our understanding of what life is. Biologist and entrepreneur J. Craig Venter, one of the scientists responsible for bringing us to this point, explained what this moment means at an event co-presented by Arizona State University at the Heard Museum—and the path that brought him here.
ASU President Michael M. Crow, the evening’s moderator, opened the discussion in front of a full house by asking Venter how he went from serving as a Navy corpsman in Vietnam to running three scientific institutes—and predicting that human …
