
FILE - J. Craig Venter poses before a gene map of a flu-causing bacterium at his office in Rockville, Md., March 12, 1997. (AP Photo/Ruth Fremson, File)

FILE - J. Craig Venter poses before a gene map of a flu-causing bacterium at his office in Rockville, Md., March 12, 1997. (AP Photo/Ruth Fremson, File)