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

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, the hard-charging San Diego biologist who co-led the sequencing of the human genome, leading to better ways to ...

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

Utz is a science communicator, public historian, and archivist, formerly at the National Human Genome Research Institute. I’d be willing to bet that most of the U.S. population above the age of 35 has ...

Venter redrew the boundaries of biology — sequencing DNA at unprecedented speed, engineering synthetic life and charting ...

A team of UK-based researchers is going where no scientist has dared to go—writing artificial human DNA from scratch. They’re hoping the project will answer fundamental questions about the human ...

Impact of mapping the human genome on the patient-physician relationship / Albert R. Jonsen -- Educating clinicians about genetics / Vincent M. Riccardi -- Medicine, gene therapy, and society / ...

One of the most detailed 3D maps of how the human chromosomes are organized and folded within a cell's nucleus is published in Nature. A major milestone has been reached, with experts across Europe, ...

His work helped scientists understand the genetic causes for rare diseases and more common conditions such as heart disease ...