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J. Craig Venter, who won the race to sequence the human genome, dies at 79

In the 1990s Venter bet that he could use a different sequencing technique to speed up the process of decoding the human genome and beat an enormous government effort called the Human Genome Project.

3 May 2026 7:23 pm