Three-year-old Nathaniel Clayton started having problems with his vision when he was just six months old. After numerous ...

How three-year-old’s life was ‘made easier’ by diagnosis of rare condition - Nathaniel Clayton’s family say their son’s ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Whole-genome sequencing reads every DNA base. This shifts medicine from diagnosing disease based on symptoms to molecular ...

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

An audacious AI alliance in Tel Hashomer medical center could turn so-called 'junk DNA' into the next frontier of healing and ...

Scientists have created a live-cell DNA sensor that reveals how damage appears and disappears inside living cells, capturing ...

American geneticist who shared a Nobel Prize for discovering the double helix structure of DNA. Born on April 6, 1928 in Chicago, IL, USA, he died aged 97 years in East Northport on Long Island, NY, ...

Why do no two human faces look quite the same? Although we all follow the same biological blueprint, our features—the curve ...