J. Craig Venter — a motorcycle-racing, world-sailing adrenaline-junkie — was the first person to sequence the human genome - and his subsequent discoveries are changing the world. “How we understand our own selves, and how we work with our DNA software has implications that will affect everything from vaccine development, to new approaches to antibiotics, new sources of food, new sources of chemicals, even potentially new sources of energy,” he says. “Food will be manufactured — it won’t be grown in fields — in 50 years.” Read More...