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J. Craig Venter, Ph.D. Delivers the 2007 Dimbleby Lecture on BBC Television
New Policy Report Outlines Options for Governance of Synthetic Genomics
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
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
JCVI Scientists Publish First Bacterial Genome Transplantation Changing One Species to Another
Research is important step in further advancing field of synthetic genomics
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
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
Antibiotic Resistance in Plague
Will the Plague Pathogen become Resistant to Antibiotics?
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
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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