Advances in genetic engineering have enabled researchers to seek ways to program new life. But has synthetic biology actually ...

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J. Craig Venter, the pioneering geneticist who accelerated the race to sequence the human genome and later created synthetic life, has died at 79 in San Diego. His death followed complications ...