It’s finally all about him. By “him,” of course, I mean J. Craig Venter, the iconoclastic scientist who had his entire genome sequenced, posted in a public database, and analyzed in a ...

A great deal has been written about Venter as the head of Celera, the private research company that won a race with the National Institutes of Health's Human Genome Project to sequence the human ...

Molecular biologist J. Craig Venter is a scientist whose status transcends his own circle. Within the last year, Venter has been interviewed or mentioned in dozens of newspaper stories. His bold, ...

J. Craig Venter, founder of the prestigious institute that bears his name, originally wanted to be a surf bum. But after a near-tragedy, he fell in love with science thanks to a mentor and an eye-o… ...

It's been 20 years since the human genome was sequenced, but Craig Venter is still not on board with the participation trophy. In addition to the 70th anniversary of Watson & Crick’s seminal ...

Craig Venter is clearly a man who likes to win, so it's hard to know whether he'll feel flattered or aggrieved to be a runner-up in the competition. He could certainly be forgiven for feeling that if ...

J. Craig Venter, the maverick scientist whose drive to crack the human genome ignited one of the fiercest rivalries in modern science, resigned Tuesday from the company he helped launch, Celera ...