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

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

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J. Craig Venter, who mapped the first draft of the human genome and helped scientists understand how genes shape our lives, died Wednesday. He was 79.

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