J. Craig Venter, 'swashbuckling' scientist who helped decode human genome, dies at 79

Venter, one of the lead scientists in sequencing the human genome and a pioneer of modern genomics, died Wednesday.

Synthetic biology promised to rewrite life – with the death of its pioneer, J. Craig Venter, how close are scientists?

Advances in genetic engineering have enabled researchers to seek ways to program new life. But has synthetic biology actually ...

J. Craig Venter, who won the race to sequence the human genome, dies at 79

J. Craig Venter has died at 79. He mapped the first draft of the human genome. The J. Craig Venter Institute announced his ...

Pioneering geneticist and decoder of the human genome J. Craig Venter dies at age 79

J. Craig Venter, the scientist who raced to decode the human genome, has died at age 79. Venter rose to fame in the field for ...

J. Craig Venter, Scientist Who Decoded the Human Genome, Dies at 79

J. Craig Venter, a scientist and entrepreneur who raced to decode the human genome, died on Wednesday in San Diego. He was 79 ...

Researchers try to cut the genetic code from 20 to 19 amino acids

Most hypotheses suggest that earlier forms of life had partial genetic codes and used fewer than 20 amino acids. To test ...

Craig Venter, pioneering human genome decoder, dies at 79

Pioneering scientist J. Craig Venter has died at 79. His "whole genome shotgun method" helped genome sequencing become faster ...
Scientific American

Human genome decoder J. Craig Venter dies at age 79

Scientist and medical technology entrepreneur J. Craig Venter published the first bacterial genome ever decoded in 1995. The ...
Nature

Genome pioneer Craig Venter dies: here’s how he transformed science

Venter redrew the boundaries of biology — sequencing DNA at unprecedented speed, engineering synthetic life and charting ...

44 million unknown variants: What India's genome project found, and why it matters

India has finally mapped its own DNA and what it found could change medicine for a billion people.
Mother Jones

Creating Baby Geniuses to Thwart the AI Threat? (Yes, Really.)

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Additional reporting by Anna Rogers Two years ago, we devoted an entire issue to the ...