Biologists mapping the human microbiome expected to find new bacteria and viruses, not entities that slip through every ...

University of Connecticut Health Center scientist, Robert Reenan, has uncovered new rules of RNA recoding--a genetic editing method cells use to expand the number of proteins assembled from a single ...

Such sites are composed of short sequences of RNA "letters" (called "bases"), which are referred to by single-letter molecular shorthands: A, U, G and C. The cell's RNA splicing machinery is correctly ...

Swedish scientists retrieved RNA from an extinct Tasmanian tiger to help trace the genes that were active in the animal’s ...

A hairpin loop from a pre-mRNA. Highlighted are the nucleobases (green) and the ribose-phosphate backbone (blue). Note that this is a single strand of RNA that folds back upon itself. Credit: Vossman/ ...

I get frustrated every time I grab a glove and realize it’s for the opposite hand. But to synthetic biologists, this annoyance is a biological quirk that could help transform medicine. Think ...

Genetic editing holds promise to treat incurable diseases, but the most popular method - CRISPR - sometimes does more harm than good. A new study from University of California San Diego and Yale ...

Scientist suggests viewing genetic code not as a static "manual" that determines how organisms function, but a dynamic process of the birth of meaning and signs—semiosis. As part of this approach, the ...

First, let’s start with the basics. All living things have a genome. Genomes are made of DNA. Each of your cells has a copy of your genome packed inside of it. You can think of it like an instruction ...