Divided opinions of his work are not new to Craig Venter.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

The participants were divided into five groups according to the amount of sugar and sugar-based sweeteners they consumed daily.

VOA: standard.2010.04.25

The land had been divided into plots and distributed to residents who had no arable soil of their own.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

U.S.air travelers this busy holiday season appear divided over whether they would want to submit to body scanning.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

And on the night of November 9, tens of thousands of Berliners flocked to the wall which had divided their city since 1961.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

He will go to the central state of Iowa on Thursday, to try to convince a deeply divided country of the plan's merits.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

Doctors have been sharply divided on how to treat patients with less serious symptoms of depression.

VOA: standard.2010.01.08

Both sides in this debate acknowledge the threat of terrorism, but are divided over how to prevent it and how to preserve the country's democratic values.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkish troops invaded the island in response to a coup in Nicosia by supporters of a union with Greece.

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

Doctors were divided on whether chemo should be given to elderly patients,after surgery.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

He tells his supporters that"the seed of divisions was planted centuries ago" as "our grandfathers were divided for instance to Greeks,Bulgarians,Serbs, and our fathers to communists" and ruling party members.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22