Advances in genetic engineering have enabled researchers to seek ways to program new life. But has synthetic biology actually ...

An engineered E. coli strain survived after one amino acid was designed out of many of its ribosomal proteins—an early test ...

Scientists have shown that evolution has been using the same genetic "cheat sheet" for over 120 million years, suggesting ...

From the first unzip of the double helix to the final joining of DNA fragments, replication is a carefully coordinated process. Understanding it helps explain how life preserves its genetic code with ...

The genetic code is central to life. With minor variations, everything uses the same sets of three DNA bases to encode the ...

Scientist and medical technology entrepreneur J. Craig Venter published the first bacterial genome ever decoded in 1995. The ...

Discover 25 unexpected facts that will change how you see the world. From frozen lobsters to massive clouds, these ...

Scientists think Neanderthal children may have had faster growth rates because larger bodies tend to retain heat more ...

WEHI researchers have led a major global effort to create the first authoritative atlas for a class of enzymes that regulate almost every cellular process in the human body. Published in Cell, the ...

Scientists at UC Berkeley have discovered a microbe that bends one of biology’s most sacred rules. Instead of treating a specific three-letter DNA code as a clear “stop” signal, this methane-producing ...

A study by researchers at The Jackson Laboratory (JAX), the Broad Institute, and Yale University has identified how specific genetic changes function in cells to influence disease risk and other human ...

Wolfgang Epstein, professor emeritus of molecular genetics and cell biology and a frontier researcher in molecular genetics, passed away on December 25, 2025. He was 94 years old. With appointments in ...