It was Eric Lander,while working for Colins in the tortoise-paced Human Genome Project, who saw that his team was losing and made it his business to beat Venter's harelike private venture at its own game .With $34 milltortoise-paced Human Genome Project, who saw that his team was losing and made it his business to beat Venter's harelike private venture at its own game .With $34 million from the Gemome Project and a $38 million loan from the Massachusetts Institute of Technologh's Whitehead Institute,Lander ordered dozens of special-purpose computers and state-of-the art capillary machines and built automated gene-sequencing pipeline so insatiable that he was soon grabbibg long stretches of DNA from other labs to fees its monstrous appetite .It was his lab's work that brought the race to a photo finish, and it was his name that appeared first on the Nature article that published the results.