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

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 ...

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

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

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