Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. J. Craig Venter was a pioneer in the fields of human genomics and synthetic biology, pursuits that both put him in the spotlight ...

J. Craig Venter, the outspoken scientist who challenged a $3 billion government effort to decode the human genome and helped accelerate one of biology’s biggest breakthroughs, has died at 79. “My ...

J. Craig Venter, a scientist who played a critical role in the sequencing of the human genome, has died at the age of 79, according to his namesake research institute. Venter's company, Celera ...