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Craig Venter, Human Genome Pioneer, Dies at 79

Craig Venter, pioneering geneticist who decoded the human genome using innovative methods, died at 79. He led Celera Genomics in a race against the government project, advanced synthetic biology, and called being a scientific maverick a "badge of honor."