How did it become possible to sequence the 3 billion base pairs in the human genome? More than a quarter ... scientist J. Craig Venter. For several years, Venter had been using automated DNA ...

In less than 50 years, the field of genetics has evolved rapidly, from solving the structure of DNA to obtaining our first glimpse of the nucleotide sequence of the human genome. Cracking the ...

After helping to sequence the human genome more than twenty years ago, biochemist Craig Venter seemed to recede from the public eye. But he hadn’t retired. He had gone to sea and taken his ...

J. Craig Venter is best known for being one of the first biologists to sequence the human genome, and for creating the first cell with a synthetic genome. He is the founder of Celera Genomics ...

J. Craig Venter, a leading scientist in modern genomic research, delivered a President s Lecture yesterday on the processes that define and alter existing life. Among the first biologists to sequence ...

The future of medicine will be predictive not reactive, says geneticist J. Craig Venter. He sketches out how genomics could help cure and prevent disease. Visualizing the future is hard.

Craig Venter says fourth generation fuels ... Can he do it? Considering Venter mapped the human genome and casually talks about manipulating the blueprints of life like it was software code ...

ABOVE: A number of scientists are calling for a ban on research that could create mirror bacteria, which pose significant risks to society. ©iStock, Galina Kamenskaya. A s synthe ...