The DNA inside of living organisms is packed with information, so much so that it's hard to search genetic databases, but ...

The genetic code, a universal blueprint for life, governs how DNA and RNA sequences translate into proteins. While its ...

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 ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

This circular diagram represents the genetic code, showing how the four nucleotide bases of RNA (adenine [A], cytosine [C], guanine [G], and uracil [U]) form codons that specify amino acids. Each ...

URBANA, Ill. – Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way ...

Millions of years of evolution gave life on earth a genetic dictionary with 64 words. Harvard University scientists thought they could do better. In an intriguing step toward lab-made organisms, they ...

The newly described microbe represents a world of parasitic, intercellular biodiversity only beginning to be revealed by ...

LMU researchers uncover the mechanism by which ribosomes raise alarms in the cell.

New research is casting doubt on a commonly held belief about how cells use DNA to make proteins, suggesting the genetic code is more diverse than previously thought. New research is casting doubt on ...