Some of the oldest objects in the solar system still drift above your head. Asteroids and comets formed before Earth took ...

The beauty of the DNA code is that organisms interpret it unambiguously. Each three-letter nucleotide sequence, or codon, in ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints that poorly understood prions may have been the vital missing ingredient ...

Metagenomi, Inc. (Nasdaq: MGX) (the “Company”), an in vivo genome editing company capitalizing on its proprietary ...

Technologies needed for tracing engineered biothreats back to their sources are advancing rapidly. Here are some ...

The protein, reverse transcriptase, has become an essential tool for making DNA copies of RNA.

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

Researchers around the world are studying how the human brain achieves its extraordinary complexity. A team at the Central ...

Yet Crick was not afraid to be wrong. Before settling on the double helix, he proposed a triple one. He published an ...

For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...

Pyrrolysine is an important component of methyltransferase enzymes, which the archaea use to metabolize methylamine in the environment. “The need for that metabolism and availability of the machinery ...