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Craig Venter
GRK Murty
On May 20th, the Science journal made a momentous announcement:
Craig Venter, Hamilton Smith, and their colleagues had created a living
creature. Venter did play God! For, he, like Viswamitra’s ‘pratisrishti’,
by creating an unprecedented creature, extinguished “the argument
that life requires a special force or power to exist.”
This newfound scientific research thus throws open new and profitable
avenues of investment for the businesses. ‘Biotechnology’, which
encompasses all the areas of molecular and cell biology, has immense
potential today for ‘translation’ in fields as diverse as agriculture and
medicine. Such translation obviously calls for huge investments both in
terms of capital and matching human resources. All along, such
research and education have been pursued by government agencies.
But any attempt at achieving a purposeful level of such ‘translation’
calls for wide collaboration among various agencies. And Indian
corporates have a greater role to play in this endeavor, for the benefits
from the promise of modern biology are overwhelming. They cannot be
passive to such investment opportunities.