Scientists say they have reached an important milestone in a quest to build a life-form from scratch. They have synthesized a bacterium's entire chromosome from its chemical building blocks. Soon, ...

The traditional explanation of the initial genetic code in life seems less established when ancient proteins seem to be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The same amino acid can be encoded by anywhere from one to six different strings of letters in the genetic code. Andrzej ...

How does our DNA store the massive amount of information needed to build a human being? And what happens when it's stored ...

Crispr’s ability to cut genetic code like scissors has just started to turn into medicines. Now, gene editing pioneer ...

While testing a new way to sequence genes, researchers stumbled upon a very rare divergence in the genetic code, which translates genetic sequences into proteins. The discovery was made in an organism ...

A QIMR Berghofer-led international team of scientists has unlocked the genetic secrets behind why some mothers are more likely than others to conceive twins. The study, published in Human Reproduction ...

A research team at the University of Würzburg has deciphered another aspect of poxviral gene activation. The study reveals a ...

Viruses are ancient. They have been infecting animals, our ancestors included, for hundreds of millions of years before the first humans ever showed up. And the legacy of those primordial infections ...

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