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Infamous geneticist and decoder of the human genome J. Craig Venter dies at 79


Scientist and medtech entrepreneur J. Craig Venter published the first bacterial genome ever decoded in 1995. The result heralded a new age of discovery for genetics

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J. Craig Venter, Scientist Who Decoded the Human Genome, Dies at 79