J Craig Venter has been a molecular-biology pioneer for two decades. After developing expressed sequence tags in the 90s, he led the private effort to map the human genome, publishing the results in ...

In between bites of eggs Benedict, genome guru Craig Venter paused recently to share a sobering lesson he learned in the dreamy waters of Cocos Island in the tropical Pacific. “The trick to swimming ...

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 ...

Barbara Rae-Venter’s genealogical sleuthing acumen has inspired others to help law enforcement with unsolved cases, as well as an ethics and privacy debate. By Heather Murphy J. Craig Venter says his ...

Between bites of eggs Benedict, genome guru J. Craig Venter paused to share a sobering lesson he learned in the dreamy waters of Cocos Island in the tropical Pacific. “The trick to swimming with ...

J. Craig Venter, PhD, left, President Bill Clinton, and Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, The White House, June 26, 2000. [Mark Wilson/Newsmakers/Getty Images] The announcement of the first draft of the ...

For J. Craig Venter, the sky isn’t the limit, but Mars might be. The 67-year-old biologist and entrepeneur first mapped the human genome in the late 1990s using a technique he invented and called ...

When President Clinton held a press conference last June to mark what was billed as one of the most important scientific milestones of the century — the cracking of the human genetic code — two men ...

LA JOLLA, California (Reuters) - Craig Venter, the U.S. scientist who raced the U.S. government to map the human genome over a decade ago and created synthetic life in 2010, is now on a quest to treat ...

Craig Venter is one of the three runners-up for Time magazine's 'Person of the Year'. The "brash and impatient" Venter is honoured for cracking the human genetic code years before it might otherwise ...