J. Craig Venter, who won the race to sequence the human genome, dies at 79
- Posted on April 30, 2026
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J. Craig Venter, who won the race to sequence the human genome, dies at 79
J. Craig Venter, who mapped the first draft of the human genome and helped scientists understand how genes shape our lives, died Wednesday. He was 79.