{"id":236362,"date":"2026-05-01T22:37:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/genome-pioneer-craig-venter-dies-heres-how-he-transformed-science"},"modified":"2026-05-01T22:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:37:37","slug":"genome-pioneer-craig-venter-dies-heres-how-he-transformed-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/genome-pioneer-craig-venter-dies-heres-how-he-transformed-science","title":{"rendered":"Genome pioneer Craig Venter dies: here\u2019s how he transformed science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genome-pioneer-craig-venter-dies-heres-how-he-transformed-science.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s very sad that Craig Venter passed away. One of a few people I\u2019ve admired since middle school. Truly a life well lived.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Venter redrew the boundaries of biology \u2014 sequencing DNA at unprecedented speed, engineering synthetic life and charting ocean microbes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s very sad that Craig Venter passed away. One of a few people I\u2019ve admired since middle school. Truly a life well lived. Venter redrew the boundaries of biology \u2014 sequencing DNA at unprecedented speed, engineering synthetic life and charting ocean microbes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}