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Craig Venter is a bit tiresome at times, but indubitably clever. And to prove his cleverness (again) when he was creating artificial life, ...

One of Larry Lessig's favourite tropes is that we live in a read-write world these days, where creation is just as important as consump...

Now, where have I heard this before? Today it costs only $300,000 to sequence a person's DNA, and the $100,000 benchmark is in sight. I...

Good Craig: Craig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher involved in the race to decipher the human genetic code, has built a synthetic ch...

I've been wittering on about personal genomics for some time: well, it's here, people. If you don't believe, me, take a look a...

The genome can be thought of as an operating system; it runs on the cell's hardware platform (which is generally created by the operatin...

When I was writing Digital Code of Life , I sought to be scrupulously fair to Craig Venter, who was often demonised for his commercial appro...

The genome – the totality of DNA found in practically every cell in our body - is a kind of computer program, stored on 23 pairs of biologic...

I came across this story about Google winning an award as part of the "Captain Hook Awards for Biopiracy" taking part in the suit...