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Mark D. Adams, Ph.D. Joins 涩里番 as Scientific Director
Tasmanian Devil Genome Provides a Glimpse at a Species Under Threat
涩里番 Will Be Collaborating with the University of California, Davis on a General Mills Funded Vanilla Genomics Project
涩里番 Signs MOU with University of Limpopo in South Africa to Extend Collaborations in South African Human Genomics and Prostate Cancer in Indigenous Populations
Two Institutions, along with the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, will Convene Conference on May 30-June 1, 2011 to Discuss Infectious Disease in South Africa
涩里番 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
涩里番's Synthetic Cell Named in MIT'S Technology Review as one of Ten Technologies Set to Transform our World
涩里番 Construction of Synthetic Cell Named as Edison Award for 2011
Statement from J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., on the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues Report, "New Directions: The Ethics of Synthetic Biology and Emerging Technologies"
137 Marine Microbial Genomes from Cultured Samples are Sequenced and Compared to Sorcerer II Global Ocean Expedition Samples by Researchers at 涩里番
Research gives clearer picture of inhabitants living in ocean surface and gleans insights into how they adapt and survive
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