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Wired
December 2002
Douglas McGray |
Supermicrobe Man First Craig Venter cracked the human genome. Now he wants to sequence the ocean and save the world.   |
Wired
August 2004
James Shreeve |
Craig Venter's Epic Voyage to Redefine the Origin of the Species He wanted to play God, so he cracked the human genome. Now Craig Venter wants to play Darwin and collect the DNA of everything on the planet. |
Bio-IT World
April 2007
Proffitt & Davies |
CAMERA Database Snaps Into Action The new Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis database was developed to store and disseminate the flood of genetic data being generated by work such as J. Craig Venter's Global Ocean Sampling expedition. |
Chemistry World
February 27, 2013
Anthony King |
PharmaSea to scour ocean depths for new drugs A new project will soon see scientists trawling the ocean bottoms for new bioactive compounds. Scientists on the PharmaSea mission will haul samples of mud and sediment from the deep sea, isolating marine organisms in the hunt for novel drug candidates. |
Scientific American
December 19, 2005 |
Lean Gene Machine An ocean bacterium has the most streamlined genome: P. ubique apparently has traded potential for economy in a big way, making its genome the equivalent of a fuel-stingy Volkswagen Beetle, whereas human DNA is more akin to a gas-guzzling Hummer pulling an RV trailer plus a boat. |
Wired
April 2006
Steve Olson |
Bringing Back the Brontosaurus Digging for fossils is for dinosaurs. Today's animal trackers are using genomics to reconstruct, and one day resurrect, the original hot-blooded beast. |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
David Mattison |
Information on the Seven Seas: International Ocean Science Web Resources (Part 2) A look at three areas of international cooperation in ocean science research: the physical and chemical ocean, meteorology, and marine life. |
Bio-IT World
April 15, 2003
Malorye Branca |
Beyond the Blueprint How will the wealth of data emanating from the human genome and allied technologies impact research on health and disease? |
Bio-IT World
June 2006
John Russell |
Gilna to Captain CAMERA Later this summer researchers will gain access to version 0.5 of CAMERA (the Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis) a platform replete with a wealth of data, analysis tools, and high-speed computational infrastructure. |
Geotimes
April 2003
Christina Reed |
The mighty, tiny larvae Understanding that marine larvae play a more active role in the ocean processes and have perhaps an evolutionary history of staying close to home provides impetus for shoreline communities to protect local habitats. |
Bio-IT World
December 10, 2002 |
Craig Venter Unvarnished (part II) The former Celera CEO covers privacy, ESTs, and his new research institutes. |
Bio-IT World
March 8, 2005
Melissa Trudinger |
Craig Venter: In Darwin's Wake Since leaving Celera Genomics in 2003, J. Craig Venter has turned his attention from mining the human genome to exploring the life forms of the oceans. Here, he talks about his voyage. |
Chemistry World
October 7, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Ocean acidification threat to UK coral reefs The latest studies on ocean acidification indicate that it's not just tropical corals that are under threat from ocean acidification, but cold water corals too. |
BusinessWeek
December 13, 2004
John Carey |
Craig Venter: DNA's Mapmaker Who could ever have imagined that a surfer working as a night clerk at Sears, Roebuck & Co. would eventually become the driving force behind the race to read the genetic code of humanity? |
Smithsonian
April 2007
Jen Phillips |
Species Explosion What happens when you mix evolution with climate change? |
Bio-IT World
August 15, 2005
Kevin Davies |
Pimp My Genome As costs plummet, the ability to rapidly synthesize and customize longer, more intricate fragments of genomic DNA opens up a plethora of applications in basic and applied biology. A commercial synthetic biology industry is beginning to take shape. |
Geotimes
December 2004
Sara Pratt |
Acidic Waters Threaten Sea Life High acidity in the world's oceans may be threatening coral populations, such as those in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. |
Chemistry World
May 20, 2010
Hayley Birch |
The first synthetic cell A chemically synthesised chromosome has for the first time been transplanted into a cell to produce a synthetic bacterium. |
Fast Company
September 2000
John Ellis |
The Secret of Life The mapping of the human genome, says Craig Venter, will change science, research, medicine, politics, health insurance, and the way biology looks at the last 3 billion years of evolution. And that's just the beginning. |
BusinessWeek
June 25, 2007
John Carey |
On The Brink Of Artificial Life Craig Venter says success is near, but critics blast efforts to patent synthetic organisms. |
Salon.com
June 27, 2000
Tabitha M. Powledge |
Book of life? Hosanna! The Human Genome Project has been completed. We will now cure diseases, weed out defective genes and create a new supergeneration in the near future. Not. |
Technology Research News
June 4, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Artificial beings evolve realistically Researchers from Michigan State University, Cal Tech, and the University of California at Los Angeles have found a way to use software to more closely mimic the way real organisms evolve, and have used the model to uncover a long-standing secret of natural selection. |
Fast Company
September 2001
Fara Warner |
Where Is the Next Frontier of Innovation? Fast-paced experimentation. Distributed intelligence. Total teamwork. The scientific formula behind the new economy is still disrupting the status quo -- in this case, 20,000 leagues under the sea... |
Salon.com
February 13, 2001
Arthur Allen |
Size doesn't matter As scientists unveil the human genome findings, it turns out we have a lot fewer genes than we'd thought, and not many more than a fruit fly... |
Geotimes
May 2007
Kathryn Hansen |
Birds Evolve Small Genomes Pre-Flight The holes in fossil dinosaur bones are pointing out the holes in the theories of bird evolution. |
Geotimes
March 2006
Kathryn Hansen |
Marine Critters Record Global Warming Layers of fossilized marine creatures have acted as an independent record of ocean temperature for millennia. Now, data from such layers is mirroring the same warming trend that instruments have shown -- suggesting humans are contributing to global warming. |
Chemistry World
September 7, 2011 |
Bringing DNA to Life Clyde Hutchison's research focuses on the search for improved methods to learn about gene function from DNA sequence information. |
Chemistry World
January 28, 2009
Nina Notman |
Iron helps oceans capture more carbon A team of international scientists studying the role of iron in the storage of carbon under the ocean have confirmed that natural iron fertilisation increases the rate of carbon capture. |
Geotimes
February 2004 |
Call for ocean policy overhaul America needs a new ocean policy. That's the message coming out of several sessions at last week's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences which focused on the health of America's oceans. |
Wired
December 2004
Sylvia A. Earle |
The Wild Blue Under The more we understand about life in extreme environments, the greater chance we'll know where to look in space. |
Financial Advisor
June 2009
Jeff Schlegel |
Liquid Investment Water provides an ocean of investing opportunities. |
Geotimes
March 2003
Greg Peterson |
Effects of ocean noise on marine mammals still noisy A committee of acousticians, oceanographers and marine biologists found that surprisingly little is known about the long-term trends in ocean noise, and even less about its effects on marine mammals. |
