J. Craig Venter, a trailblazing geneticist who helped decode the human genome and pioneered synthetic biology, has died at 79 in San Diego. His death followed complications from treatment for recently ...

J. Craig Venter, the pioneering geneticist who co-led the race to sequence the human genome and created the first synthetic cell, has died at 79 in San Diego. He gained prominence by challenging the ...

Venter’s death was announced by the J. Craig Venter Institute, a genomics research group with locations in La Jolla, ...

Craig Venter, one of the fathers of the genome project, has died in San Diego at the age of 79. The scientist, biologist, and ...

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

J. Craig Venter, the scientist whose relentless ambition helped turn genetics from an artisanal trade into an industrialized ...

How do our genes determine our appearance and our susceptibility to disease? This question is central to biomedical research, ...

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

Endometriosis, a chronic inflammatory disease that affects approximately one in ten women of reproductive age—around 190 ...

When scientist J. Craig Venter and his team announced in 2010 that they had created the first cell controlled by a fully synthetic genome, it marked a turning point in how scientists think about life.

Venter advanced efforts to translate genomics and synthetic biology into the tools for the benefits of human health.