J. Craig Venter is no stranger to contradiction and controversy. He seems to thrive on it. In 1991, when the National Institutes of Health was haggling over patenting expressed sequence tags (ESTs)--a ...

LANHAM, Md. — J. Craig Venter, whose former company spent two years mapping human DNA, unveiled plans Wednesday to open a research center where a person’s genes will one day be decoded in seconds. He ...

Incyte Corp. is closing its unprofitable gene information division in Palo Alto, following a wave of other biotech firms that concluded they could make more money developing drugs than selling data ...

When J. Craig Venter proposed last May to use the "shotgun" technique to sequence Drosophila, many scientists doubted that blasting such a large genome into billions of base pairs, then reassembling ...

How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World By James Shreeve Knopf. 403 pp. $26.95 Judging by the number of books recounting the complete sequencing of the human genome, this ...

The cooperation that characterized the international Human Genome Project (HGP) is shifting rapidly towards competition as the project's members vie to decipher the genetic codes of other species.