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03-Sep-2007
Press Release

First Individual Diploid Human Genome Published By Researchers at J. Craig Venter Institute

Sequence Reveals that Human to Human Variation is Substantially Greater than Earlier Estimates

Independent sequence and assembly of the six billion base pairs from the genome of one person ushers in the era of individualized genome-based medicine

11-Jul-2007
Press Release

The J. Craig Venter Institute to Aid Asiatic Centre for Genome Technology to Establish New Genomics Facility

The program will also provide for in-depth training of Malaysian scientists on new tools and techniques of genomics

28-Jun-2007
Press Release

JCVI Scientists Publish First Bacterial Genome Transplantation Changing One Species to Another

Research is important step in further advancing field of synthetic genomics

17-May-2007
Press Release

Scientists at J. Craig Venter Institute Publish Draft Genome Sequence from Aedes aegypti, Mosquito Responsible for Yellow Fever, Dengue Fever

Genome is Larger and More Complex Compared to Fruit Fly and Mosquito Species that Carries Malaria

11-Apr-2007
Press Release

J. Craig Venter Institute Announces Management Team and Organizational Structure

J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., Founder, remains as President and Chairman; Robert Strausberg, Ph.D., is named Institute Deputy Director

20-Mar-2007
Press Release

Antibiotic Resistance in Plague

Will the Plague Pathogen become Resistant to Antibiotics?

13-Mar-2007
Press Release

More than Six Million New Genes, Thousands of New Protein Families, and Incredible Degree of Microbial Diversity Discovered from First Phase of Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition

Unprecedented amount of data deposited in CAMERA database; features enhanced tools to visualize and analyze metagenomic data

13-Mar-2007
Collaborator Release

Launching the Global Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Research and Analysis (CAMERA)

UC San Diego Makes Venter Institute's Global Ocean Sampling (GOS) Expedition Microbial Metagenomic Data and Computational Tools Available to Scientists Worldwide

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Puerto Vallarta: Investigating the Influence of Coastal Development

Sampling today starts before sunrise when we arrive at Puerto Vallarta. In conjunction with our Mexican collaborators, we are investigating the influence of coastal development, particularly intensive tourism, on marine microbiota, so we take a sample of surface water in Banderas Bay and leave...

Strong Winds

Winds have picked up considerably in the last 36 hours, and tonight they are blowing in the 25 to 30 knot range, below gale force but still too strong to safely deploy our instrumentation. We sail past the plankton bloom near Cedros Island without stopping, but you can see the sparkle of the...

Blooms and Clear Skies

We left under clear skies and light winds, and within hours of heading out, we were sampling the waters off of the Coronado Islands near the US/Mexican border and plotting our sampling schedule for the next few days. The team passed around the latest satellite data from SeaWiFS, NASA’s global...

J. Robert Beyster and Life Technologies 2009-2010 Research Voyage Launch

After two years of intensive sampling in the waters off California and the west coast of the United States, the Sorcerer II Expedition embarked once again on March 21, 2009. Our destination: the Baltic, Black and Mediterranean Seas. Funded by generous donations from the Beyster Family...

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06-May-2019
ZME Science

Hair claimed to belong to Leonardo da Vinci to undergo DNA testing

Critics, however, argue that this effort is flawed from the beginning

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