J. Craig Venter, who won the race to sequence the human genome, dies in San Diego at 79
- Posted on May 4, 2026
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J. Craig Venter, who won the race to sequence the human genome, dies in San Diego at 79
In the 1990s Venter bet that he could use a sequencing technique to speed up the decoding of the human genome and he beat an enormous government effort called the Human Genome Project.
