j. craig venter's coming back, don't be too shocked. [laughter] but obviously even quote simple single eukaryotic cells have a lot more levels of regulation. but one thing you should be cognizant of is epigenetic phenomenon are still based on genetics. everything in the sale is coded for initially i the dna. the properties of the proteins and processes get their own specifications from that, and as a sales get more complex, those processes get more complex. there's an effort now, a european effort, to try to make the entire genome in a massive effort sort of like the public genome effort over the next five years to remake east, replacing all of the other chromosomes one at a time, but because everything evolves from the genetic code as soon as it gets read, the sale remakes everything that it is going to need. yeast and your carry-on going to be proper more simplistic. >> is protein decay similar to atomic decay? and does the rate of decay for certain proteins affect the use within the cell? >> it's similar in the sense that different p

j. craig venter was the first to sequence the human genome talks about bioengineering and the impact to have an human to future. mr. venter spoke at the national museum of history new york city. this is about an hour and 10 minutes. [applause] >> i could listen to him all night. thank you for the very warm introduction. it's a pleasure to be back at the museum again. pick a comeback last 10 years after they're a part of an exhibit. so it shows how science is changing what we can do. as i'm talking about my new book tonight, "life at the speed of light," this is based in no small part on his lecture i was invited to give last year in dublin college, following up on what truly jury did in 1943 when he gave a series of lectures as a physicist trained to define life and see if life had to obey physical principles. and i think he largely concluded that it did. he wrote a book based on his lectures. it is a tiny but did i've read several times. it's called what is life. but it has influenced a tremendous amount of modern science. i want to show you why it has if you haven't read the book. the