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 ...
Dr. Venter was a visionary scientific leader whose work helped define modern genomics and launch the field of synthetic biology. He drove scientific and technological change by building ...
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 ...
In between bites of eggs Benedict, genome guru Craig Venter paused recently to share a sobering lesson he learned in the dreamy waters of Cocos Island in the tropical Pacific. “The trick to swimming ...
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 ...