J. Craig Venter is no stranger to contradiction and controversy. He seems to thrive on it. In 1991, when the National Institutes of Health was haggling over patenting expressed sequence tags (ESTs)--a ...

LANHAM, Md. — J. Craig Venter, whose former company spent two years mapping human DNA, unveiled plans Wednesday to open a research center where a person’s genes will one day be decoded in seconds. He ...

June 26, 2025, is the 25th anniversary of the White House announcement of the first sequencing of the human genome, and July 28, 2025, marks the 30th anniversary of the publication of the first ...

Incyte Corp. is closing its unprofitable gene information division in Palo Alto, following a wave of other biotech firms that concluded they could make more money developing drugs than selling data ...

Celera Genomics Group and Myriad Genetics Inc., two of the largest US genomics companies, are dedicating their DNA sequencing and typing expertise to the massive effort of identifying victims in last ...

How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World By James Shreeve Knopf. 403 pp. $26.95 Judging by the number of books recounting the complete sequencing of the human genome, this ...

The cooperation that characterized the international Human Genome Project (HGP) is shifting rapidly towards competition as the project's members vie to decipher the genetic codes of other species.