Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

In the past decade, there has been significant interest in studying the expression of our genetic code down to the level of ...

Researchers have identified a large number of areas in the human genetic code that are involved in regulating the way in which the liver functions, in a new study of over 61,000 people, published ...

The team at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology calls their creation Syn57. It is a synthetic ...

We've heard of GMOs, but this is ridiculous. A bombshell report published by scientists at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular ...

A newly discovered Denisovan gene, hidden within human DNA, may have helped the first Americans adapt to their new world.

The genetic code is the universal set of rules that defines how DNA and RNA sequences are translated into proteins, enabling the accurate synthesis of essential biomolecules in all living organisms.

Like bees breathing life into gardens, providing pollen and making flowers blossom, little cellular machines called ...

The genetic code therefore has 64 possible codons (four nucleotide possibilities at each of the three positions in a codon). Among the 64 codons, 61 are sense codons, each of which specifies 1 of ...

A team of scientists led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco may have uncovered a new wrinkle in the genetic code – an entirely unrecognized way our bodies regulate how genes ...

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, research finds.