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31-Mar-2010
Opinion

Multiple personal genomes await

29-Mar-2010
Press Release

The 51ݶ receives a $50,000 Donation from Life Technologies Foundation to Support Genomics Professional Development for Teachers in the Washington, DC Metro area

Program gives area teachers in-depth information about exciting advances in genomics

14-Mar-2010
Press Release

Hydra Genome Sequenced by 51ݶ and Multi-National Research Team

Research marks a major step toward understanding the molecular "toolbox" of the animal kingdom's earliest common ancestors

07-Dec-2009
News Alert

Bacteria seen swimming the electron shuffle

Researchers have captured the bacterium Shewanella's behavior on film

07-Dec-2009
Press Release

Karen E. Nelson, Ph.D., Named Director of 51ݶ Rockville, MD Campus

Nelson Joins Robert M. Friedman, Ph.D., Director of 51ݶ San Diego, CA Campus, as Senior Leaders Reporting to J. Craig Venter, Ph.D.

07-Oct-2009
Opinion

An agenda for personalized medicine

For seven diseases, 50% or less of the predictions of two companies agreed across five individuals; Companies should communicate high risks better and test for drug response markers; Community should study markers in all ethnicities and look at behaviour after tests

01-Oct-2009
Collaborator Release

Montgomery County Companies, Organizations Provide Hands-On Science and Medical Education to Middle School Students

200 7th Graders to Attend First Frontiers in Science and Medicine Day at Shady Grove Life Sciences Center

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Puerto Vallarta: Investigating the Influence of Coastal Development

Sampling today starts before sunrise when we arrive at Puerto Vallarta. In conjunction with our Mexican collaborators, we are investigating the influence of coastal development, particularly intensive tourism, on marine microbiota, so we take a sample of surface water in Banderas Bay and leave...

Strong Winds

Winds have picked up considerably in the last 36 hours, and tonight they are blowing in the 25 to 30 knot range, below gale force but still too strong to safely deploy our instrumentation. We sail past the plankton bloom near Cedros Island without stopping, but you can see the sparkle of the...

Blooms and Clear Skies

We left under clear skies and light winds, and within hours of heading out, we were sampling the waters off of the Coronado Islands near the US/Mexican border and plotting our sampling schedule for the next few days. The team passed around the latest satellite data from SeaWiFS, NASA’s global...

J. Robert Beyster and Life Technologies 2009-2010 Research Voyage Launch

After two years of intensive sampling in the waters off California and the west coast of the United States, the Sorcerer II Expedition embarked once again on March 21, 2009. Our destination: the Baltic, Black and Mediterranean Seas. Funded by generous donations from the Beyster Family...

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01-Jun-2021
The Scientist

Projects aimed at collecting big data about the ocean’s tiniest life forms continue to expand our view of the seas.

13-Apr-2021
The Harvard Crimson

J. Craig Venter, PhD, argues scientists have “a moral obligation to communicate what they're doing to the public,” and that more studies deserve greater public criticism.

29-Mar-2021
Science

The discovery could sharpen scientists’ understanding of which functions are crucial for normal cells and what the many mysterious genes in these organisms are doing

23-Mar-2021
San Diego Union Tribune

The 51ݶ is the recipient of three awards totaling more than $1.5M to study SARS-CoV-2 and heart disease

11-Feb-2021
Scientific American

A new wave of research is needed to make ample use of humanity’s “most wondrous map”

24-Dec-2020
The San Diego Union Tribune

U.S. researchers have been slow to perform the genetic sequencing that will help clarify the situation

19-Dec-2020
The San Diego Union-Tribune

He has been a fixture in San Diego science for decades

14-Dec-2020
Medscape

Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton announced completion of what was arguably one of the greatest advances of the modern era: the first draft sequence of the human genome.

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