Bacteria seen swimming the electron shuffle

Researchers have captured the bacterium Shewanella's behavior on film

Karen E. Nelson, Ph.D., Named Director of J. Craig Venter Institute Rockville, MD Campus

Nelson Joins Robert M. Friedman, Ph.D., Director of JCVI San Diego, CA Campus, as Senior Leaders Reporting to J. Craig Venter, Ph.D.

An agenda for personalized medicine

For seven diseases, 50% or less of the predictions of two companies agreed across five individuals; Companies should communicate high risks better and test for drug response markers; Community should study markers in all...

Montgomery County Companies, Organizations Provide Hands-On Science and Medical Education to Middle School Students

200 7th Graders to Attend First Frontiers in Science and Medicine Day at Shady Grove Life Sciences Center

J. Craig Venter, Ph.D. to Receive National Medal of Science From President Obama

President Honors Nation’s Top Scientists and Innovators

President Obama today named nine eminent researchers as recipients of the National Medal of Science, and four inventors and one company as recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honors bestowed...

New genomic model defines microbes by diet -- provides tool for tracking environmental change

J. Craig Venter Institute Researchers Clone and Engineer Bacterial Genomes in Yeast and Transplant Genomes Back into Bacterial Cells

New methods allow for the rapid engineering of bacterial chromosomes and the creation of extensively modified bacterial species; should also play key role in boot up of synthetic cell

The NIAID-Supported Pathogen Functional Genomics Resource Center at the J. Craig Venter Institute Offers New Affymetrix Array for Faster Identification of E. Coli and Shigella

Custom microarray allows scientists to identify different strains of the potentially fatal foodborne pathogens

NIH Expands Human Microbiome Project; Funds Sequencing Centers and Disease Projects