Genetics pioneer Craig Venter is not named as a defendant, but the company he founded alleges that he stole trade secrets.

Researchers find that modern human populations carry distinct sets of genes from the extinct hominin species.

Two large-scale studies reveal new insights into the genomic characteristics of childhood cancers.

A study suggests that there is more to the eukaryotic genome than was previously suspected.

A new study sheds light on how the most abundant bird in North America went extinct. 

Genetic variants in Alzheimer’s- and smoking-related genes appear to be under selection pressure, according to a study comparing the genomes of old and young participants.

Two freely available databases include data on hundreds of human cancer cell lines. 

Transcriptomic analyses of a patient with severe Ebola virus disease revealed shifts in the expression of antiviral and immune response genes, corresponding to the stages of illness.

What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes