Scientists in the UK have rewritten one of life’s oldest operating systems. They have built a bacterium that functions with a ...

In the past decade, there has been significant interest in studying the expression of our genetic code down to the level of ...

Our cells produce a variety of proteins, each with a specific role that, in many cases, means that they need to be in a ...

The genetic code is the universal set of rules that defines how DNA and RNA sequences are translated into proteins, enabling the accurate synthesis of essential biomolecules in all living organisms.

All living things on Earth use a version of the same genetic code. Every cell makes proteins using the same 20 amino acids. Ribosomes, the protein-making machinery within cells, read the genetic ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

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 ...

One tool, multiple functions In the past, addressing multiple, unrelated genetic abnormalities at once—by, say, editing one gene and suppressing another—would have required multiple distinct ...

A team of scientists led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco may have uncovered a new wrinkle in the genetic code – an entirely unrecognized way our bodies regulate how genes ...

The new finding shows that exponentially larger amounts of genetic code can be moved or added, potentially increasing CRISPR's functionality.

These genetic codes are still present in humans and a group of primitive fishes. This has been demonstrated by recent genomic research conducted by University of Copenhagen and their partners.