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J. Craig Venter Named Harvard Visiting Scholar
Visionary intellectual entrepreneur joins Origins of Life Initiative
Venter Institute Scientists Create First Synthetic Bacterial Genome
Publication Represents Largest Chemically Defined Structure Synthesized in the Lab
Team Completes Second Step in Three Step Process to Create Synthetic Organism
NIH Launches Human Microbiome Project
NIH Roadmap Effort to Use Genomic Technologies to Explore Role of Microbes in Human Health and Disease
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
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning will be the keys to unraveling how the human immune system prevents and controls disease
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The biggest synthetic genome so far has been made, with a smaller set of amino-acid-encoding codons than usual — raising the prospect of encoding proteins that contain unnatural amino-acid residues.
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