The Archon X PRIZE for Genomics challenges scientists and engineers to create better, cheaper and faster ways to sequence genomes. A $10 million prize
for the first team to successfully sequence 100 human genomes in 10 days.

Scientists say that surprisingly many large chunks of human DNA differ among individuals and ethnic groups. The research also suggests that humans have less DNA in common with chimpanzees, our closest living relative, than is widely supposed. See also: Globe and Mail.

The scientists still don't know specifically what the gene does. But they know that this same gene turns on in human fetuses at seven weeks after conception and then shuts down at 19 weeks.

By engineering its genetic blueprint, they have rebuilt a gene that was present in primitive animals.

The genetic code of an important group of methane-producing microbes has been sequenced by German scientists. The researchers believe the study, could lead to ways to control the microbes. The question is, should we?

Sometimes only one twin will have health problems when genetics predicts both of them should.

A Wakefield researcher may have found a strain of mice immune to cancer.

In news of the odd connection today, sciencetists may have learned something new about mammoth fur by examining mouse genes.

Bacteria are so important to key functions such as digestion and the immune system that we may be truly symbiotic organisms -- relying on one another for life itself, the scientists write in Friday's issue of the journal Science.

RNA, previously believed to be responsible only for the creation of proteins, may actually be involved in heredity as well.

An analysis of our genetic history suggests speciation from chimpanzees may not have been a clean break.

Gene scientists claim to have found proof that the Welsh are the "true" Britons.

A British woman has become the first in the country to conceive a "designer baby" selected specifically to avoid an inherited cancer, The Times said Saturday.

A mathematical analysis of the human genome suggests that so-called "junk DNA" might not be so useless after all.