Oxygen, essential to our existence, took nearly a billion years to appear in significant quantities on Earth, despite the ...

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to ...

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to ...

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

Using termite and cockroach genomes, researchers built phylogenetic trees from transposons, paving a new way to differentiate difficult evolutionary lineages.

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 ...

Technical advances allow researchers to trace the genetic changes that occur over time.