The discovery of catalytic RNA transformed our understanding of life's beginnings. Clare Sansom explores how the RNA world ...

Ancient evidence suggests a new twist in how we all got here.

The power of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced computing has made it possible to design genetic sequences encoding ...

The researchers took a “safety-first” approach. They deliberately excluded all viruses that infect humans or animals from the ...

What would happen to the genetic code, were it not to put together its twenty amino acids in the tidy, one-after-another ...

Every time a cell divides, it must copy its entire genome so that each daughter cell inherits a complete set of DNA. During that process, enzymes known as polymerases race along the DNA to copy its ...

Ginkgo Bioworks (DNA) stock is in focus as the company as part of a collaboration with Microsoft (MSFT)-backed OpenAI cuts protein synthesis costs. Read more here.

Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...

As you approach 40, your body starts to rewrite the rules of nutrition. Research shows changes in digestion, hormone levels, ...