Global flu watch: Report of rare flu coinfection in Southeast Asia hot spot

While dual infections in Cambodia did not produce new strain, study cites need for continuous tracking against risk of different influenza viruses combining to create a new pandemic

Synthetic Genomics Vaccines, Inc. Hires Vaccine Executive Sammy J. Farah as President

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Synthetic Genomics Vaccines, Inc. Hires Vaccine Executive Sammy J. Farah as President LA JOLLA, CA —(September 29, 2011) —Synthetic Genomics Vaccines, Inc (SGVI), a privately held...[more]

JCVI's Part-time Associate Professor Elodie Ghedin is selected as 2011 MacArthur Fellow

J. Craig Venter Institute Breaks Ground on La Jolla, California's First True Sustainable Laboratory Facility

Facility will be LEED Platinum Certified and will be on the University of California, San Diego Campus[more]

Mark D. Adams, Ph.D. Joins J. Craig Venter Institute as Scientific Director

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mark D. Adams, Ph.D. Joins J. Craig Venter Institute as Scientific Director ROCKVILLE, MD and SAN DIEGO, CA — July 12, 2011 — The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) today announced that...[more]

Tasmanian Devil Genome Provides a Glimpse at a Species Under Threat

COLLABORATOR RELEASE Tasmanian Devil Genome Provides a Glimpse at a Species Under Threat JCVI researcher Vanessa Hayes has been working with collaborators, Stephan Schuster and Webb Miller from Penn State University, to...[more]

JCVI Will Be Collaborating with the University of California, Davis on a General Mills Funded Vanilla Genomics Project

COLLABORATOR RELEASE JCVI Will Be Collaborating with the University of California, Davis on a General Mills Funded Vanilla Genomics Project For more information see the UC Davis release and General Mills release. [more]

J. Craig Venter Institute Signs MOU with University of Limpopo in South Africa to Extend Collaborations in South African Human Genomics and Prostate Cancer in Indigenous Populations

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE J. Craig Venter Institute Signs MOU with University of Limpopo in South Africa to Extend Collaborations in South African Human Genomics and Prostate Cancer in Indigenous Populations Two...[more]

J. Craig Venter Institute Scientists, Along with International Team, Uncover New Insights into Evolution of Diatoms and Reveal Evidence for a Urea Cycle used to Metabolize Carbon and Nitrogen

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE J. Craig Venter Institute Scientists, Along with International Team, Uncover New Insights into Evolution of Diatoms and Reveal Evidence for a Urea Cycle used to Metabolize Carbon and...[more]

JCVI's Synthetic Cell Named in MIT'S Technology Review as one of Ten Technologies Set to Transform our World