Pioneering scientist J. Craig Venter has died at 79. His "whole genome shotgun method" helped genome sequencing become faster and cheaper.
Scientist and medical technology entrepreneur J. Craig Venter published the first bacterial genome ever decoded in 1995. The result heralded a new age of discovery for genetics ...
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 enormous government effort called the Human Genome Project.
Your browser does not support the <audio> element. After this, he realised that the only institutions in which he could comfortably operate in future would be those ...
A risk-taking outsider, he brought speed, competition and controversy to one of science’s biggest races. By Nicholas Wade J. Craig Venter, a scientist and entrepreneur who raced to decode the human ...
Craig Venter, the hard-charging San Diego biologist who co-led the sequencing of the human genome, leading to better ways to treat everything from heart defects to Alzheimer’s disease and further ...
Fingerprinting transformed police investigations by making it possible to place a suspect at a crime scene with physical evidence. Similarly, genome sequencing has changed how disease detectives study ...
The fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD was a pivotal moment in human history, when Germanic chieftain Odoacer deposed teenage emperor Romulus Augustulus in Italy and set in motion the collapse ...
On 26 June 2000, J. Craig Venter accompanied then US president Bill Clinton and geneticist Francis Collins, leader of the Human Genome Project (HGP), into the East Room of the White House to celebrate ...
Thomas Scientific, a leading provider of laboratory supplies, equipment, and services, proudly marks its 125th anniversary, celebrating more than a century of supporting the scientific community and ...