There's at least one relatively recent example the entrepreneurial set can cite: In the late 1980s the federal government said that mapping the first human genome was going to take 15 years and cost $ 3 billion. (fortune.com)
Craig Venter, the geneticist who mapped the first human genome in 2000, believes his company Human Longevity can uncover the diseases lurking within healthy individuals and help people live to triple digits. (cnbc.com)
J. Craig Venter, the superstar geneticist who mapped the first human genome in 2000, has a new challenge: decoding death. (cnbc.com)