Craig Venter, who booted up the first synthetic cell, dies at 79

Keyword: Chemistry

Publisher: Boing Boing

Published: Apr 30, 2026

In 2010, Craig Venter and his colleagues took a bacterial genome they had designed on a computer, assembled it from chemical building blocks, transplanted it into an empty cell, and watched the cell … [+1570 chars]

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