J. Craig Venter: The genome renegade who reshaped biotech
TL;DR
STAT memorializes J. Craig Venter, detailing how his audacious push to map and rewrite genomes—racing the Human Genome Project with Celera, sequencing microbes with Ham Smith, and pioneering synthetic biology—transformed biomedical science, while also provoking debate over patents, profit, and access in the biotech era.
Topics:nationscience#biotechnology#celera-genomics#genomics#human-genome-project#science#synthetic-biology
- Remembering J. Craig Venter: a relentless scientist who changed biotech — and was all too easily misunderstood statnews.com
- J. Craig Venter, Scientist Who Decoded the Human Genome, Dies at 79 The New York Times
- Synthetic biology promised to rewrite life – with the death of its pioneer, J. Craig Venter, how close are scientists? The Conversation
- ‘Swashbuckling’ geneticist and human genome decoder J. Craig Venter dies at age 79 Scientific American
- J. Craig Venter Dies at Age 79 GenomeWeb
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