J. Craig Venter is the latest wealthy entrepreneur to think he can cheat aging and death. And he hopes to do so by resorting to his first love: sequencing genomes.
On Tuesday, Dr. Venter announced that he was starting a new company, Human Longevity, which will focus on figuring out how people can live longer and healthier lives.
Image: Karen Xu, a scientist at J. Craig Venter’s Synthetic Genomics, prepares samples of microorganisms from desert soil and rock. Credit Michal Czerwonka for The New York Times
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