The entrepreneur was also a pioneer of synthetic biology.

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

A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers ...

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

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 ...

The Genome 10K Community of Scientists and BGI (formerly the Beijing Genomics Institute) of Shenzhen, China, have announced a plan to sequence the genomes of 101 vertebrate species within the next two ...

“We’re only just beginning to understand the full majesty of life on Earth,” wrote the founding members of the Earth BioGenome Project in 2018. The ambitious project raised eyebrows when first ...

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 ...

Twenty-five years ago today, on July 7, 2000, the world got its very first look at a human genome — the 3 billion letter code that controls how our bodies function. Posted online by a small team at ...

India has finally mapped its own DNA and what it found could change medicine for a billion people.

J. Craig Venter, PhD, left, President Bill Clinton, and Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, The White House, June 26, 2000. [Mark Wilson/Newsmakers/Getty Images] The announcement of the first draft of the ...