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Craig Venter, one of the fathers of the genome project, has died in San Diego at the age of 79. The scientist, biologist, and ...

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WHEN THE first draft of the DNA sequence that makes up the human genome was unveiled in 2000, America’s president at the time, Bill Clinton, announced that humankind was “learning the language with ...

Craig Venter, the hard-charging San Diego biologist who co-led the sequencing of the human genome, leading to better ways to ...

J. Craig Venter, a scientist and entrepreneur who raced to decode the human genome, died on Wednesday in San Diego. He was 79 ...