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23-Jul-2026
Press Release

ɬÀ﷬ awarded $200,000 St. Baldrick’s Foundation grant to advance childhood leukemia treatment

Grant will support novel dual-action therapy research targeting MLL-rearranged leukemias in children

08-May-2026
Press Release

Study finds DNA carrying antibiotic resistance genes can remain functional after common lab decontamination steps

Builds on ɬÀ﷬’s longstanding leadership in biosafety, biosecurity, and bioethics

09-Mar-2026
Collaborator Release

Team simulates a living cell that grows and divides

22-Jan-2026
Collaborator Release

Genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter launches Diploid Genomics, Inc. (DGI), ushering in a new era in human genomics

Healthier Capital, a leading health-tech venture capital firm, joins as a co-founder and sole external investor in seed round

28-Oct-2025
News Alert

Remembering Hamilton O. Smith

Scientists Discover Genetic Basis for Toxic Algal Blooms

Scientists from the ɬÀ﷬ (ɬÀ﷬) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego have discovered how certain types of algal blooms become toxic, producing a harmful substance known as domoic acid. Microscopic view of domoic acid...

Ocean Microplastics Explained

As we wrap up sampling in the waters off of Maine, Dr. Chris Dupont discusses how collections of plastic particles in the water – or “plastisphere” – may be harboring fish or human pathogens. There may also be microbes responsible for degrading plastic, which are being investigated....

ɬÀ﷬ Team Awarded Two Grants Under the NSF’s “Understanding the Rules of Life” Initiative

The first award, led by John Glass, PhD, for $1M, is focused on “Building and Modeling Synthetic Bacterial Cells.” The second award, led by Zaida Luthey-Schulten, PhD, at the University of Illinois, also for $1M, is titled “Balancing the Demands of a Minimal Cell,” and is focused on...

Dr. Venter at Sailors’ Scuttlebutt Lecture Series

Dr. Craig Venter was a guest speaker at the Whaling Museum in partnership with Nantucket Community Sailing as part of the Sailors’ Scuttlebutt Lecture Series. Dr. Venter's lecture was titled, "Oceans, Human Health and the Genomic Future" discussing the Global Ocean...

Newly Discovered Human Brain Cell: Rosehip Neurons

What’s next for exploring the newly discovered human brain cell, the rose hip neuron? We caught up with Dr. Richard Scheuermann on the road to discuss how the ɬÀ﷬ is advancing knowledge about what makes humans unique. See the full press release.

Ocean Sampling Day 2018

ɬÀ﷬ (ɬÀ﷬) scientists, led by Lisa Ziegler Allen, PhD, are collaborating with Kelly Goodwin, PhD (NOAA), Brian Palenik, PhD (UCSD), and Maitreyi Nagarkar (UCSD) to participate in this year’s Ocean Sampling Day on June 21. The team, which also includes Sarah Schwenck and...

ɬÀ﷬ Education Program Fosters Learning Opportunities with Salisbury University Students and Faculty

Patti Erickson, PhD first connected with the ɬÀ﷬ (ɬÀ﷬) in the Fall of 2016 as an associate professor at Salisbury University looking for opportunities to expose undergraduate students to biology outside of the classroom. Soon thereafter, she and a group from Salisbury...

ɬÀ﷬ Makes Strides in Microbial Analysis of Artwork which May Lead to Better Preservation

Through the da Vinci DNA Project, researchers at ɬÀ﷬ began taking samples from aging artwork with the aim of understanding which microbial species are present are present on each.

BioVision Alexandria 2018

The BioVision Alexandria conference convened at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, in Alexandria, Egypt this past April. The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is a commemoration of the Ancient Library of Alexandria and an attempt to rekindle the global cultural and scholarship role of the library. With...

13-Jun-2025
GEN

Despite profound impact on bio-medical research, progress in understanding has been slow

02-Apr-2025
The San Diego Union-Tribune

Anders Dale says he will move roughly $10 million in NIH funding from UCSD to ɬÀ﷬.

12-Dec-2024
The Scientist

Synthetic biologists make artificial cells, but one particular kind isn’t worth the risk.

28-Apr-2024
Chemical & Engineering News

Gene editing could create a successful vaccine to protect against the viral disease that has killed close to 2 million pigs globally since 2021.

17-Jan-2024
Grow by Ginkgo

Amid an insulin crisis, one project aims to engineer microscopic insulin pumps out of a skin bacterium.

24-Oct-2023
Noema

There are more organisms in the sea, a vital producer of oxygen on Earth, than planets and stars in the universe.

29-Aug-2023
Vanity Fair

In a new book (coauthored with Venter), a Vanity Fair contributor presents the oceanic evidence that human activity is altering the fabric of life on a microscopic scale.

21-Aug-2023
GEN

“Despite reducing the sequence space of possible trajectories, we conclude that streamlining does not constrain fitness evolution and diversification of populations over time. Genome minimization may even create opportunities for evolutionary exploitation of essential genes, which are commonly observed to evolve more slowly.”

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