Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make ...

Researchers have identified a large number of areas in the human genetic code that are involved in regulating the way in which the liver functions, in a new study of over 61,000 people, published ...

A team from the University of Illinois has uncovered surprising evolutionary links between the genetic code and tiny protein ...

Transcription and translation are processes a cell uses to make all proteins the body needs to function from information stored in the sequence of bases in DNA. The four bases (C, A, T/U, and G in the ...

Scientists in the UK have rewritten one of life’s oldest operating systems. They have built a bacterium that functions with a stripped-down genetic code, eliminating seven of the 64 instructions used ...

To overcome the inherent challenge of translation termination interference caused by stop codon reprogramming in mammalian cells, researchers from Peking University led by Chen Peng from College of ...

Influential inventions often combine existing tools in new ways. The iPhone, for instance, amalgamated the telephone, web ...

For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer.

Call it a mystery with a stubby tail: an odd-looking mouse discovered through a U.S. government breeding program in the 1940s that had a short, kinky tail and an extra set of ribs in its neck – and ...

If you think about the coronavirus, your mind probably goes to lockdowns, hospitals, and the strange new habits we've formed this year. But for some scientists, the virus is essentially nothing more ...