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Clone Armies And Designer Life--The Video

Discover the future of biotech as Craig Venter shares insights on innovative biofuels and bio-everything.

Written byCarl Zimmer
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Last week I wrote about a talk by genome pioneer Craig Venter on the future of biotech, biofuels, and bio-everything. Here's the talk, posted on Fora.tv. (Note to friends and family: the question at about 48:30 is from me.)

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