Black Technology Library

Chapter 217 A Man Who Can Make Trouble
Steven Chu has a document in his hand, which was provided by Gates. The first person on this list is Craig Venter, a famous person in the history of science. More than ten years ago, the International Human Genome A legend of planning achievement.

He is an existence who singles out the world by himself, and can be compared to the five rogue life scientists. He always appears in various news, behaves in a bohemian style, and always wears white on the left and black on the right. A characteristic suit, this is his custom-made suit, specially for attending various ceremonies.

Bohemian, scientific madman is his pronoun, Craig is different from those scientists who are bored in the laboratory, but a scientist who holds a press conference from time to time to announce his latest progress and put himself under the flashlight!

He never knew how to keep a low profile, and he was always talking nonsense. Countless people accused him of being a liar, but no one saw him as a hope for mankind!
On October 1946, 10, Venter was born in a civilian family in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. His parents who were busy with work rarely had time to play with him, which gave Venter unlimited freedom. Born without parental care.

Venter, who has an adventurous gene in his bones, likes to play the "heartbeat game". When he was a child, Venter lived next to the railway, and there were trains coming and going every day. The passing trains flattened the numbers above.

He also put his ears on the rails before the train arrived, and compared with his friends who lasted longer!He even climbed onto the passing carriage amidst the roar of the train driver!These are all his achievements in his childhood.

Venter doesn't like school. In his eyes, going to school is the most boring thing in the world!When he was in high school, his grades were terrible, and he was full of mistakes in spelling even the simplest words.

But he is an athlete, but he has shown great talent in swimming. He has never been systematically trained, and he actually broke the local swimming record in one competition!
Seeing his swimming talent, Arizona State University offered him an olive branch.But tired of following the rules and regulations, Venter rejected the invitation of Arizona State University. He came to Southern California and lived a chic life of drinking, surfing and picking up girls.

In 1967, during the first Vietnam War, he persuaded his family to come to the Vietnam battlefield where the artillery was raging. Venter, who was enlisted in the army, participated in the IQ test of recruits. High IQ of 142!

The IQ that crushed all the recruits gave him the right to choose the type of arms. Venter decided to enter the Naval Hospital and become a medical soldier.Before that, he had never had any experience in studying medical care. This mischievous child entered the palace of life sciences in this way.

I don’t know when it started, “The 21st century is the era of life sciences!” This slogan was shouted loudly. It is because countless people have entered the field of biology. It is impossible to enter the Institute of Life Sciences to work.

After getting a graduation certificate and entering the society, what I faced was a series of rejection letters, politely rejecting the application for employment.These biology graduates sighed, how did they believe in that slogan in the first place.

War is extremely cruel. This standard mischievous student did not "shame" on the battlefield as his family expected. Instead, he performed exceptionally well on the battlefield!

He did not close his eyes for more than five days and five nights, treating thousands of soldiers!The horrific war made him doubt the world, and this fearless child once wanted to escape all this by committing suicide!
"I want to escape from the tens of thousands of corpses transported from the jungle." He left a suicide note, then stood on the beach and swam towards the deep sea without looking back. His only thought was to exhaust himself. At the end of their lives, they sank into the bottom of the sea and disappeared on this muddy earth together with their comrades in arms.

Unfortunately, he encountered a shark. When the shark tried to attack him, he exploded with unprecedented strength and fled back to the shore. After committing suicide once, he narrowly escaped death and never wanted to commit suicide a second time!
"The idea of ​​dying is gone, I want to live, I want to be different. It's more than anything I've had in 21 years. I got interested in medicine and science almost in the harshest, harshest circumstances Yes. At that time, I was just surprised that we had so little medical knowledge and technology. In the Vietnam battlefield, life was so cheap, and my sense of mission was born from this, and I can’t waste time anymore.”

In an interview when he became famous, he said to the reporter that his whole life started the most stalwart start!He brought life science to an unprecedented position!
He chose to retire and did not accept the Purple Heart awarded in front of the White House in the United States. In his opinion, it was something poured with blood, and it was not worth receiving at all.

After meditating at home for more than 20 days and enjoying the peaceful life after the war, he decided to pick up the books and study again. He always remembered the words his master said on the Vietnam battlefield: "After the war, you Definitely go to college, you come across as uneducated but gifted. Give it a try instead of doing nothing."

After entering a community college for three semesters, Venter got excellent grades of all A's and was accepted by the University of California, San Diego. He started to study hard and lived up to his genius-like IQ.

In 6 years, he changed from a Venter who almost couldn't graduate from high school and rejected the admission letter with high heart, to a double doctor of physiology and medicine!
After graduation, Venter joined the National Institutes of Health. Although he had sufficient funds and equipment to conduct research, Venter was not happy at all. He loves freedom by nature and works in the National Institutes of Health. It was like a bird was locked in a cage, and the endless approval work made him feel very irritable.

"Can you imagine a very good idea, a very good paper, being told by the FDA that it has no value! It's like having a very big dinner and being told it's a ****! So I'm going to escape like this bureaucratic hell!"

In 1990, the International Human Genome Project, HGP, was officially launched. This project gathered biologists from six countries in the world, intending to unlock the secrets of genes.Venter participated in the sequencing effort, but all new sequencing methods were overwhelmed by endless reviews.

The mainstream sequencing method is to measure tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of base pairs on a piece of DNA one by one by adding chain-terminating nucleotides.

What Venter thought of was the "shotgun method". The idea of ​​the shotgun sequencing method is to break the genome into millions of DNA fragments, and then use a certain algorithm to reintegrate the sequence information of the fragments, so as to obtain entire genome sequence.

His method was not recognized, and everyone thought he was a lunatic. How could millions of DNA fragments be successfully sequenced!Just like a lunatic, and the US National Institutes of Health has also stopped all his research funding!

His personality is very rebellious. He liked the guy lying on the rails since he was a child. How could he bear this kind of anger and directly escaped from this bureaucratic hell and formed a company by himself.

At the first meeting of starting the company, he expressed his ambitious ambitions!

"The group of guys who eat dry food every day don't understand the convenience of this shotgun method! We want to prove them wrong with facts! We want to complete the Human Genome Project faster than them! This is the goal of my company! "

In 1998, he found someone willing to fund him, Perkin-Elmer!Injected [-] million U.S. dollars into him and let him set up Celera Corporation!
On the day of its establishment, he "arrogantly" said to the media microphone, "I want to complete the sequencing of the human genome within 3 years, and I will apply for patent protection for the detected genes! And make profits from it!"

He didn't deduct wild words, but he really did it. It took him only one year to complete the sequencing work that took six countries seven years to complete, and he started to take the lead.

Venter's company has made breakthroughs one after another, no matter how much his opponents hate his showing off, no matter how many people criticize his ambition of "applying for gene patents", they have to admit it!Venter really got ahead of the Human Genome Project!

This lunatic fulfilled his promise, and he single-handedly beat up scientists all over the world!

With the help of then US President Clinton, the reluctant Venter joined the six-nation cooperation group led by Collins and agreed to upload the measured data to the database for free download.

In the past 8 years, only 3% of the Human Genome Project has been completed, but when Venter joined HGP again, after joining, in just 3 years, 90% of the Human Genome Project has been completed!

In 2000, the human genome project gene draft originally scheduled to be completed in 2005 was completed!Venter stood beside President Clinton and became a household scientist.

He was on the cover of Time magazine and was voted "Millennial Scientist of the Year!"

However, he failed the Platinum-Elmer company that helped him at the beginning, so he was dismissed by Celera Company. Of course, this time was with honor. When he was fired, Celera Company gave him $1 million as compensation.

This guy who is good at making troubles is not disheartened because of his resignation, he is still making troubles!
(End of this chapter)