Craig Venter has died | Hacker News

Craig Venter, the biologist and genomics entrepreneur, has died.

The Hacker News discussion highlighted his role in speeding up the first human genome draft through Celera and shotgun sequencing.

Venter was a defining figure in modern genomics and later helped push synthetic biology forward.

Tributes focused on how his work shaped DNA sequencing, the Human Genome Project, and the broader field of genome science.