For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new ...

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

Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Children's National Hospital in Washington D.C. are uncovering how rare inherited genetic variants contribute to the development of brain ...

Some plants stay healthy even when a key nutrient drops. New research explains the root and cell tricks that help plants ...

A paper published in Biology Methods and Protocols, finds that it is now possible to distinguish wild from farmed salmon ...