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John Craig Venter (born October 14, 1946) is an American biotechnologist and businessman. He is known for leading one of the first draft sequences of the human genome [1] [2] and assembled the first team to transfect a cell with a synthetic chromosome.
Craig Venter is the founder, chairman and CEO of the J. Craig Venter Institute in La Jolla, CA, United States. He will be giving the Mendel Lecture on Tuesday June 18 at 13.30 hrs. He talked to Mary Rice about his life and work.
JCVI Home Page | J. Craig Venter Institute. 1st International SynBYSS Conference. Brining together the synthetic biology community with an explicit goal to invest in the young, diverse, and international future of synthetic biology. Join us December 9-12, 2024 at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Learn More. 1st International SynBYSS Conference.
J. Craig Venter (born Oct. 14, 1946, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.) is an American geneticist, biochemist, and businessman who pioneered new techniques in genetics and genomics research and headed the private-sector enterprise, Celera Genomics, in the Human Genome Project (HGP).
Apr 28, 2020 · With his current series of breakthroughs in synthetic biology Craig Venter and his team are not so much creating life as joining life. Reverse-engineering evolution's long-refined tricks and...
Sep 18, 2023 · Geneticist J. Craig Venter is best known for his role in sequencing the human genome and creating a ‘synthetic’ cell containing only genes that are necessary for life.
In 2001, Craig Venter made headlines for sequencing the human genome. In 2003, he started mapping the ocean's biodiversity. And now he's created the first synthetic lifeforms — microorganisms that can produce alternative fuels.
