Scientist and medical technology entrepreneur Craig Venter died in San Diego, California on April 29, the New York Times reported. He was 79 years old.
His death was announced by the Craig Venter Institute, a non-profit research organization founded by the scientist. The institute said that Venter was recently hospitalized due to side effects resulting from cancer treatment.
Venter is the founder of Celera Genomics, a genetic research company. In 2000, his company obtained one of the first close reads of the human genome at the same time as the Human Genome Project.
Craig Venter has become the first person to get a personal copy of his genome. He became the donor whose genome was Selera.
how Notes N+1, a scientist known for his research in the field of synthetic biology. In 2016, his team built an artificial organism with as few genes as possible.