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Craig Venter, who mapped his own genome and jump-started the biotechnology business, announced this week that he is turning his attention to the creation of fourth-generation fuels — life forms that feed on CO2 and generate methane fuel as waste. The challenge, according to Venter, is not in creating the organisms to consume CO2, which already exist, it is extracting the CO2 in quantities large enough to create a fuel supply. [...]

Encyclopedia of Life Web Site Many big ideas are born at the TED Conference (TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design). The conference brings together the world's big thinkers and doers to deliver talks on many topics. Every year, three prize winners are chosen and they each present one wish.

This year, biologist E.O. Wilson was the recipient of one of the TED prizes, and

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