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

J. Craig Venter, who mapped the archetypal draught of the quality genome and helped scientists recognize however genes signifier our lives, died connected Wednesday (April 30, 2026). He was 79.

Venter’s decease was announced by the J. Craig Venter Institute, a genomics probe radical with locations successful La Jolla, California, and Rockville, Maryland. The institute said helium died successful San Diego aft being hospitalised for broadside effects from a caller crab treatment.