From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

Almassalha said. “Pairing the words (genetic code) and the language (geometric code) may enable the ability to finally read and write cellular memory.” “Imagine evolution not as adding more words to a ...

Scientists have long believed that a universal genetic code serves as a blueprint for all life on Earth, dictating the structure and function of organisms from the simplest bacteria to complex humans.

Naked mole-rats seem to have found nature’s cheat code for longevity. Scientists discovered that small tweaks in one of their ...

Researchers at Trinity Translational Medicine Institute (TTMI) and the Irish Mycobacterial Reference Laboratory at St James's ...

A genetic study of canines living in Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone separates myth from a potential breakthrough in understanding ...

Arabidopsis thaliana was always an unlikely candidate for the limelight. But 25 years ago, the diminutive thale cress ...

A spider on the Canary Islands lost half its DNA but gained more genetic variety. Scientists say this changes how we ...

Intracellular living therapeutics convert cellular signals into coordinated healing programs Get small and look inside. I ...

For decades, scientists believed the essence of life was written solely in four chemical bases: A, C, T, and G. Together, ...

In 1812, hundreds of thousands of men in Napoleon's army perished during their retreat from Russia. Researchers now believe a ...

Scientists discover a “runaway bulldozer” in ant DNA that silences smell genes, keeping chemical communication - and colony ...