On a return trip from Japan early in his career while working for the National Institutes of Health in the late nineties, Venter, lacking a book or movie to distract him, figured out he needed to stockpile cDNA (DNA clones) in order to sequence genes.Moral of the story: Next time you take an airplane flight, don't bring a book.
Tuesday, February 20, 2001
Craig Venter's Side of the Genome Story
