Biotechnology can flourish anywhere there is the capital to support it – but researchers need to collaborate and address public uneasiness about their work, says the leader of the first team to map the human genome.
Dr Craig Venter, president and chief scientific officer of Celera Genomics Corporation, was speaking to the Catching the Knowledge Wave conference this morning via video link from the United States.
He said that although biotechnology research has been largely limited to the United States and western Europe, the arrival of the internet has made it possible for researchers around the world to participate.
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