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

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

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

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

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 ...

Multicellular organisms (animals, plants, humans) all have the ability to methylate the cytosine base in their DNA. This ...

And then there is Nvidia – the AI powerhouse whose chips and software quietly underpin much of today’s generative AI ...

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

This radical new method could preserve our entire knowledge base for thousands of years, in a storage medium the size of a ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have cracked the DNA code of the longest living mammal, the bowhead whale, revealing a mechanism that could potentially prolong the human lifespan by ...

Now, researchers have found that advances in the field over just a few years have led to families getting answers sooner and more children are receiving a diagnosis. The parents of three-year-old ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their ...