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When public good needs private cash

Sometimes innovators have to turn to private funding to get things done. Kai Ryssdal talks with Craig Venter about how he funded research into the human genome.

Genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter during a speech in New York in March 2006. (Michael Nagle/Getty Images)

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