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X Prize Foundation Announces Largest Medical Prize in History
Washington D.C. (October 4, 2006) — The X PRIZE Foundation announced today the $10 million Archon X PRIZE for Genomics — A multi-million dollar incentive to create technology that can successfully map 100 human genomes in 10 days. The prize is designed to usher in a new era of personalized preventative medicine and stimulate new avenues of research and development of medical sciences. On hand to help the X PRIZE Foundation make this historic announcement were some of the...
The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), J. Craig Venter Institute, J. Craig Venter Science Foundation Consolidate into one Organization — the J. Craig Venter Institute
ROCKVILLE, MD — October 16, 2006 — The Boards of Directors of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), The Institute of Genomic Research (TIGR) and the J. Craig Venter Science Foundation (JCVSF) today announced the consolidation of these affiliated organizations into one organization, the J. Craig Venter Institute. The research organization formerly known as JCVI will be renamed The Center for the Advancement of Genomics (TCAG). J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., was named as the Chairman...
Of Jaws and Man
SINGAPORE AND ROCKVILLE, MD, December 21, 2006 — A joint team of scientists from Singapore A*STAR's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) and the United States-based J. Craig Venter Institute have completed an initial sequence of the elephant shark genome. By comparing this genome to the human genome they have discovered a large number of ancient DNA fragments in the human genome. These ancient DNA fragments in the human genome do not make proteins; instead they regulate...
Venter Institute Hosts Press Conference to Unveil Results from Global Ocean Sampling Expedition
WHAT: A press conference with live web cast announcing the results from the Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling (GOS) Expedition. Researchers, led by J. Craig Venter, PhD, circumnavigated the globe on a two year sailing research expedition and have discovered millions of new genes, thousands of new protein families and have greatly expanded our understanding of microbial biodiversity through genomic analysis. Results will be published in PloS Biology and cover sampling from Halifax, Nova...
Launching the Global Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Research and Analysis (CAMERA)
Scientists and engineers at the University of California, San Diego and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) have flipped the virtual switch on the first cyberinfrastructure customized to serve the marine microbial metagenomics community. At the heart of the cyberinfrastructure is a new, high-performance computer and storage complex funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and located in UC San Diego's Atkinson Hall, headquarters of the California Institute for Telecommunications and...
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
ROCKVILLE, MD — March 13, 2007 — Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) today announced the publication of several studies from the Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition (GOS) in PLoS Biology (www.plosbiology.org) detailing the discovery of millions of new genes, thousands of new protein families and specifically the characterization of thousands of new protein kinases from ocean microbes using whole environment shotgun sequencing and new computational tools....
J. Craig Venter Institute Announces Management Team and Organizational Structure
ROCKVILLE, MD — April 11 , 2007 — The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), formed in October 2006 through the merger of several affiliated organizations — The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), The Center for the Advancement of Genomics (TCAG), and the J. Craig Venter Science Foundation (JCVSF), today announced the new management team and organizational structure for the JCVI. J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., founder, remains as Chairman and President of the new JCVI. Robert...
Scientists at J. Craig Venter Institute Publish Draft Genome Sequence from Aedes aegypti, Mosquito Responsible for Yellow Fever, Dengue Fever
ROCKVILLE, MD — May 17, 2007 — The fight against yellow fever and dengue fever was advanced today by an international team of researchers led by Vishvanath Nene, Ph.D. of the J. Craig Venter Institute who sequenced the Aedes aegypti genome, the mosquito that carries these deadly diseases. The research was published in the journal Science. This research is the first characterization of the approximately 1.38 billion base pairs of DNA of the Ae. aegypti genome. From this...
JCVI Scientists Publish First Bacterial Genome Transplantation Changing One Species to Another
ROCKVILLE, MD — June 28, 2007 — Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) today announced the results of work on genome transplantation methods allowing them to transform one type of bacteria into another type dictated by the transplanted chromosome. The work, published online in the journal Science, by JCVI's Carole Lartigue, Ph.D. and colleagues, outlines the methods and techniques used to change one bacterial species, Mycoplasma capricolum into another, Mycoplasma...
The J. Craig Venter Institute to Aid Asiatic Centre for Genome Technology to Establish New Genomics Facility
ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND, U.S.A. AND KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA — July 11, 2007 — The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) today announced an agreement with the Asiatic Centre for Genome Technology Sdn Bhd (ACGT), a center that focuses on the application of genome technology to improve oil palm and other crops, to help ACGT establish a new genomics research facility in Malaysia. The JCVI will also provide hands-on training for Malaysian scientists. "As part of the Venter Institute's mission...