The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies ...

A new study has revealed that "junk DNA" descended from ancient viruses could play a key role in controlling genes.

The recoded bacterium uses only 57 of the 64 possible genetic codes, freeing up seven to be used for different purposes ...

Animals that hibernate are incredibly resilient. They can spend months without food or water, muscles refusing to atrophy, ...

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than ...

Dr. Vanessa Conn, one of the scientists on the team, said that these circular RNAs can work together and cause many changes ...

Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the material in cells that carries all genetic information in humans, animals, plants, and all living cells. It’s passed down from ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in ...

Scripps scientists show that ribose may have been nature’s preferred sugar for building RNA, offering new insight into how life’s molecular foundations may have formed before biology began. Today, ...

Steven Larsen received the jolt of his life when he discovered he had adult child; it prompted him to write a book about his life.

In a new study, scientists used nearly every tool in their toolkit—genomics, transcriptomics, greenhouse experiments and ...

In living organisms today, complex molecules like RNA and DNA are constructed with the help of enzymes. So how did these ...