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 ...

The entrepreneur was also a pioneer of synthetic biology.

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

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

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

Venter led the private effort to sequence the human genome and created the first synthetic bacterial cell while launching ...

Comparing the horse genome to the three billion DNA pairs found in the human genome will help researchers learn more about our genetic makeup, the researchers said. It will also h ...

Improved analysis adds several microproteins to the human proteome, and suggests a path toward identifying thousands more ...

J. Craig Venter, the scientist who led the private effort to sequence the first draft of the human genome, has died at age 79 in San Diego. His work accelerated genetic research, revealing links ...

UC Santa Cruz has a long history of pioneering advances in genomics research. The first working draft of a human genome sequence was assembled on our campus in 2000, which has led to enormous leaps in ...