Proposed revision of data-sharing principles recognizes changing times and technologies.

Latest avian flu virus to cause human deaths doesn't contain human flu sequences but could still be dangerous.

Report urges giant genome initiative for organisms at Earth's extremes.

New Rockefeller chief Paul Nurse, known for his warm heart, likes to keep his hands wet.

sequence helps settle debate over shotgun versus clone-by-clone sequencing.

With publication of the mouse genome sequence come tantalizing glimpses of its huge importance.

Scientists see new Venter genome project as interesting, but hardly dangerous.

Agreement enables basic stem cell research to continue but bans diagnostic or therapeutic applications.

NIH genome priorities misplaced, say miffed monkey researchers.

Politically popular dog and cow make the A-list for US sequencers.

US NAS report says GM animals pose greater threat to environment than to human health.

The chicken genome will be among the next to be sequenced, and so will that of humanity's closest relative.