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

In the 1990s Venter bet that he could use a sequencing technique to speed up the decoding of the human genome and he beat an ...

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 ...

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 ...
Nature

J. Craig Venter obituary: maverick biotechnologist who sequenced the human genome

The entrepreneur was also a pioneer of synthetic biology.

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

J. Craig Venter, one of the lead scientists in sequencing the human genome and a pioneer of modern genomics, died on ...
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 ...
The Scientist

The Long Road to Complete the Human Genome Project

With rapid progress in sequencing technologies and the successful completion of the project’s pilot phase, the effort to map the human genetic blueprint gained significant momentum. This acceleration ...

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 ...
The Scientist

J Craig Venter, “Swashbuckling” Geneticist and Human Genome Pioneer, Dies at 79

Venter led the private effort to sequence the human genome and created the first synthetic bacterial cell while launching ...
IFLScience

"You Have To Iterate, You Have To Fail, You Have To Quickly Pick Yourself Up": Genome Loaded Onto Quantum Computer For First Time

Tom has a master’s degree in biochemistry from the University of Oxford and his interests range from immunology and microscopy to the philosophy of science.View full profile Tom has a master’s degree ...
New Scientist

The rich but complicated legacy of genome pioneer Craig Venter

Craig Venter has died aged 79. He was at the forefront of sequencing the human genome and of synthetic biology, but divided ...