Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...

The genetic code is a set of rules defining how the four-letter code of DNA is translated into the 20-letter code of amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins. The genetic code is a ...

The genetic code, a universal blueprint for life, governs how DNA and RNA sequences translate into proteins. While its complexity has inspired generations of scientists, its origins remain a topic ...

Science has revealed some of the secrets of the X chromosome, but many remain. In humans, female cells contain two X chromosomes (XX) and male cells contain one (XY). In each female cell, one X ...

What makes the human brain unique? A Yale study unlocks new insights into genetic changes that shaped our evolution.

For the structure of the genetic code and the evidence for nonsense triplets see the papers in the Cold Spring Harbor Symposium XXXI on “The Genetic Code”, 1966 (in the press). Weigert ...

Gene pools are getting dangerously shallow for many species but new research shows conservation efforts are helping to ...

"Cracking Your Genetic Code" reveals that we stand on the verge of such a revolution. Meet a cancer patient who appears to have cheated death and a cystic fibrosis sufferer breathing easily ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism — a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon — using a cellular platform that they developed ...

"I think what we're learning is that the genetic predisposition interacts with the culture to bring about anorexia and other eating disorders," she says. "You're born with the gun, and society ...

While many RNA molecules serve as intermediates in the protein synthesis pathway based on genetic code, lncRNAs do not take part in this process. Instead, they play essential roles in genetic ...