J. Craig Venter (1946—2026)

In recent years, science and engineering have advanced at a relatively incremental rate, partly due to the reward system of academia and conservative funding environments [1,2]. A limited number of breakthrough biotechnologies have included directed evolution, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-based ones, the mRNA Coronavirus vaccine, and AI-based protein design. Otherwise, there have been fewer disruptive discoveries and inventions in biology and biotechnology t