Like Godzilla, J. Craig Venter destroyed many a scientific edifice, was revered by many, and launched the rebuilding of new fields of science. He was brash, cranky, opinionated, tough, sometimes ...

Two weeks ago, one of the most important scientists of the 20th century died. Craig Venter was a legend in genomics — a self-styled maverick who made a career of challenging institutional science and ...

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 ...

J. Craig Venter, one of the lead scientists in sequencing the human genome and a pioneer of modern genomics, died Wednesday, his research institute announced. He was 79. The J. Craig Venter Institute ...

Dr. J. Craig Venter was a pioneer in modern genetics research. In the late 1990s, he led Celera Genomics’ project to sequence the human genome, which was published jointly with the public Human Genome ...

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 ...

Venter and his teams achieved a milestone by constructing the first self-replicating bacterial cell controlled by a chemically synthesized genome. American scientist Craig Venter, a global pioneer in ...

J. Craig Venter, a scientist who played a critical role in the sequencing of the human genome, has died at the age of 79, according to his namesake research institute. Venter's company, Celera ...

A risk-taking outsider, he brought speed, competition and controversy to one of science’s biggest races. By Nicholas Wade A Nobel laureate, he identified an enzyme that cuts DNA, laying the groundwork ...