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

Pioneering and controversial geneticist who was one of the first to sequence the human genome, in part by using his own DNA ...

Venter, who died on April 29, is a posthumous co-author on what is likely to be his final contribution to science ...

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 on Wednesday, his research institute announced.

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 ...

Craig Venter has died aged 79. He was at the forefront of sequencing the human genome and of synthetic biology, but divided opinion in how he went about it ...

Craig Venter, the maverick biologist who helped revolutionize science through the role he played sequencing the human genome, has sold the elite biomedical research center he built in La Jolla to UC ...

Scientist and medical technology entrepreneur J. Craig Venter published the first bacterial genome ever decoded in 1995. The result heralded a new age of discovery for genetics ...