Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual ... research from Northwestern Engineering’s Vadim Backman reveals a second “language” of life: the “geometric code” embedded ...

EMBL researchers created SDR-seq, a next-generation tool that decodes both DNA and RNA from the same cell. It finally opens ...

An international team led by Monash University researchers has uncovered the genetic code governing the way genetic mutations affect mRNA and result in disease.

For decades, scientists believed the essence of life was written solely in four chemical bases: A, C, T, and G. Together, ...

Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories, which read the genetic code and assemble the proteins that every organism needs ...

Naked mole-rats seem to have found nature’s cheat code for longevity. Scientists discovered that small tweaks in one of their ...

This 407-million-year-old species of clubmoss doesn’t follow the Fibonacci sequence like most of its living relatives.

A new study of the bizarre naked mole rat shows that the animals have evolved a DNA repair mechanism that could explain their longevity. These burrow-dwelling rats have a maximum life span of nearly ...

Intracellular living therapeutics convert cellular signals into coordinated healing programs Get small and look inside. I ...

Lateone monsoon evening in Tiruppur, a textile buyer ran two fingers across a swatch he couldn’t quite place. It felt like ...

It’s the time of year when leading scientists might not want to let any calls go to voicemail. Prizes in chemistry, physics, and physiology or medicine, established by Swedish industrialist Alfred ...