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

Craig Venter competed with the public consortium to sequence the human genome in the late 1990s. To demonstrate his technological capabilities, he showed the world that he could sequence the genome of a complex multicellular organism, and he did so using the genome of Drosophila melanogaster. A few years later, he published the human genome. The surprise was the high level of gene conservation between a fruit fly and humans. This work catapulted this model organism to the forefront of biomedical research.