J. Craig Venter Institute Archives

Angela Zoumplis and Natalie Aranda collecting samples at Blood Falls. Photo: Bryan Minnear

Ancient Marine Life May Be Hiding In Antarctica’s Blood Falls

by Keith CowingAugust 9, 2026August 9, 2026

[Scripps/JCVI] Blood Falls has long been one of Antarctica’s strangest landmarks: a red-stained outflow that spills from the face of Taylor Glacier into the cold, dry landscape of the McMurdo […]

A simulated cell in the early stages of division. Left half shows membrane (green cubes), and ribosomes (yellow/purple) interwoven through in the cell’s chromosome (red). Right side shows all the proteins (grey) and RNA (orange) inside the cell with a small cutaway to show a second copy of the cell’s chromosome (blue). From Figure 1 of the paper, “Bringing the genetically minimal cell to life on a computer in 4D.” Journal: Cell. DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2026.02.009 Credit Graphic by Zane Thornburg

AI - Data - Apps - Cybernetics, Biochemistry & Organic Chemistry, Biophysics, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Origin & Evolution of Life, Press Release

Simulating A Living Cell: First Simulation Of An Entire Cell Cycle

by Keith CowingMarch 11, 2026March 11, 2026

By simulating the life cycle of a minimal bacterial cell — from DNA replication to protein translation to metabolism and cell division — scientists have opened a new frontier of […]

Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Microbiology & Virology, Press Release

First Minimal Synthetic Bacterial Cell

by Keith CowingMarch 24, 2016

Researchers from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) and Synthetic Genomics, Inc. (SGI) announced today the design and construction of the first minimal synthetic bacterial cell, JCVI-syn3.0. Using the first […]