Reacción a "Craig Venter, the biologist and entrepreneur who decoded the human genome, has died "

I’m still surprised when, during talks at high schools or universities, no one has heard of Craig Venter. In the Human Genome Project, he led the private-sector effort with his company Celera Genomics, competing head-to-head with the public initiative led by Francis Collins. They published the project’s drafts “back-to-back,” as shown on the covers of *Nature* and *Science* in 2001. Venter was the first person to sequence his entire genome (2007, The Diploid Genome Sequence of an Individual Human). Another controversial figure, James Watson, was the second person to sequence his entire genome. The Human Genome Project was followed by synthetic biology, with its own controversies.