BUFFALO, N.Y. -- J. Craig Venter, PhD, the pioneering biologist who led the first team to sequence the human genome, received a State University of New York Honorary Doctorate in Science at the ...

Dr. Venter is JCVI founder and founder of its precursor organization, The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) where he and his team decoded the genome of the first free-living organism and hundreds ...

Craig Venter, the president of Celera Genomics, loves to race. The brash scientist has competed, and won, in his 82-foot sailboat, called Sorcerer, which features a spinnaker with a 20-foot-tall image ...

Adam Keiper at National Review's The Corner stumbles upon human-genome-sequencer J. Craig Venter "pooh-pooh[ing] the scientific achievement that helped catapult him to international celebrity." In a ...

On May 20, 2010, headlines around the world announced one of the most extraordinary accomplishments in modern science: the creation ot he world's first synthetic life-form. With the ability to ...

Craig Venter on ethics, innovation, and the need for mavericks in science today. Geneticist Craig Venter joins bioethicist Insoo Hyun to discuss the balance between ethics and innovation in science.

Knights of the double helix : the quest for biology's holy grail -- Reading the book of life : a quick voyage around the human genome -- Eye of the TIGR : J. Craig Venter, maverick sequencer -- ...

Healthier Capital, a leading health-tech venture capital firm, joins as a co-founder and sole external investor in seed round LA JOLLA, Calif., Jan. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Diploid Genomics, Inc.

There have always been two kinds of innovators: those who have an incandescent idea that changes the world and those who keep having them. Increasingly, J. Craig Venter, 61, is establishing himself as ...