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 ...

J. Craig Venter, who mapped the first draft of the human genome and helped scientists understand how genes shape our lives, died Wednesday. He was 79. Venter’s death was announced by the J. Craig ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Geneticist J. Craig Venter in a photograph from 2015. J. Craig Venter, the scientist who raced to decode the human genome, has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Craig Venter in his laboratory in 1997 - Jean-Christian Bourcart/Liaison Craig Venter, the molecular biologist who has died aged ...

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 ...

The International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium announces the completion of a "working draft" human genome sequence. Craig Venter (left, Celera Genomics), President Bill Clinton (center), and ...

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 ...

Dr J Craig Venter, who decoded human genome in scant three years, sets his sights on even grander goal--cataloging all the microbial life in the world; says that he and colleagues had discovered at ...

Pioneering and controversial geneticist who was one of the first to sequence the human genome, in part by using his own DNA At the international BioVision conference in Lyon in February 2001, the ...