For decades, scientists believed the essence of life was written solely in four chemical bases: A, C, T, and G. Together, ...
The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies served a purpose or if they were just leftovers from evolutionary processes ...
Scientists injected a fragment of 40,000-year-old genetic material into laboratory mice, revealing skeletal changes from a ...
An illustration of E. coli. Scientists have been racing to shrink the genetic code of this bacterium. Kateryna Kon / Science Photo Library via Getty Images The DNA of nearly all life on Earth is made ...