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Roddenberry Foundation Gives $5 Million to J. Craig Venter Institute for Sustainable Wastewater Treatment Technology Development
J. Craig Venter Institute Announces November 9, 2013 Black Tie Event to Celebrate Opening of New California Sustainable Laboratory
Capital One Bank is Top Sponsor for Event
Prepared Statement on the Supreme Court Human Gene Patent Ruling
Research Team Publishes New Methods for Synthetic Generation of Influenza Vaccines
Design Enables More Rapid Response to Potential Pandemics
J. Craig Venter Institute’s Mobile Genomics Lab Launches First School Visits in San Diego County
Real Time Genomics and J. Craig Venter Institute Embark on Strategic Research Initiative
Long-term collaboration to understand de novo mutations for stem cell progression study and deliver validated, gold-standard datasets
Dr. J. Robert Beyster and Betty J. Beyster Make $2.5 Million Pledge to the J. Craig Venter Institute
Prepared Statement from J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., and the J. Craig Venter Institute and Synthetic Genomics Vaccines, Inc. on the H7N9 avian flu strain in China
Venter Institute-Led Team Recovers and Sequences Genome of Periodontal Pathogen from Biofilm in Hospital Sink using Single-Cell Genomics
J. Craig Venter Named MRIGlobal 2013 Citation Award Winner
Preeminent Scientist Will Receive Honor at Annual Dinner on Sept. 4, 2013
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NASA and JCVI host symposium on the evolution of Earth and Life
On May 12th and 13th, the J. Craig Venter Institute in San Diego will be hosting a NASA Astrobiology Institute-funded symposium titled “Paleobiology in the genomics era.” Paleobiology is the study of the origins and evolution of life and, by nature, is interdisciplinary. The goal is to...
JCVI Supports Human Mircrobiome Body Site Experts with Shotgun Data Analysis
Members of the Human Microbiome Project (HMP) Consortium (see http://commonfund.nih.gov/hmp and http://www.hmpdacc.org for more information on the project and partners) including human microbiome body site experts gathered for a virtual Jamboree January 19th. The fully online-based Jamboree...
The Microbiome of Esophageal Cancer
In anticipation of the International Human Microbiome Congress, our group has diligently worked to generate data to present for our HMP demo project studying the microbiome of patients who have developed esophageal cancer, gastrointestinal reflux disease, and barrett’s esophagus. We...
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Sailing the Seas in Search of Microbes
Projects aimed at collecting big data about the ocean’s tiniest life forms continue to expand our view of the seas.
What the Public Should Not Know
J. Craig Venter, PhD, argues scientists have “a moral obligation to communicate what they're doing to the public,” and that more studies deserve greater public criticism.
Scientists coax cells with the world’s smallest genomes to reproduce normally
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San Diego arts, health, science and youth groups to share $71M from Prebys Foundation
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Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of the First Publication of the Human Genome
A new wave of research is needed to make ample use of humanity’s “most wondrous map”
Scientists rush to determine if mutant strain of coronavirus will deepen pandemic
U.S. researchers have been slow to perform the genetic sequencing that will help clarify the situation
After saving countless lives, Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith retires as his own health falters
He has been a fixture in San Diego science for decades
The 'Wondrous Map': Charting of the Human Genome, 20 Years Later
Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton announced completion of what was arguably one of the greatest advances of the modern era: the first draft sequence of the human genome.
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