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- J. Craig Venter, founder of the J. Craig Venter Institute, died in San Diego at 79 after hospitalization for side effects from cancer treatment.
- He pushed the public Human Genome Project to speed up by aggressively using whole-genome shotgun sequencing.
- Venter co-led the 2000 draft of the human genome, later built the first self-replicating bacterial cell with a synthetic genome, and founded Celera Genomics.
