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

I would highlight his visionary nature and his ability to introduce business management practices into large-scale scientific projects, first in the Human Genome Project, and later in the field of synthetic biology. He set himself goals that seemed out of reach and introduced a way of doing things that was unknown in academic science. This earned him a reputation as a maverick who was tainting the pristine world of basic research, but ultimately he was a driving force of the highest order in achieving objectives of the highest order. If I had to highlight one of his achievements, I would choose the fact that he succeeded in synthesising the complete genome of an organism for the first time and making it function as a self-replicating entity. I consider this the greatest milestone in the materialist concept of life.