Daily Briefing: ‘A true pioneer and maverick’, Craig Venter dead at 79

You have full access to this article via your institution. Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here . Craig Venter in his office with his dog, Darwin. Credit: Eli Meir Kaplan/For The Washington Post via Getty Craig Venter — who led a race to decode the human genome, pioneered a genome-sequencing method still used today, created the first organisms with synthetic genomes and sailed around the world recording microbial diversity — died …