Billions of years ago, the molecular building blocks of life emerged from a complex web of chemical and geological processes.

Scientists have discovered that some tiny segments of RNA thought to be junk instead have a functional role in suppressing production of certain messenger RNAs and appear to help cells respond to ...

In human cells, only a small proportion of the information written in genes is used to produce proteins. How does the cell ...

Laboratories would literally go dark,” says a medical research insider, if Trump administration cuts to NIH funding go ...

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 ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered new details about how the human genome produces instructions for creating ...

By Sage Rohrbach A mosaic image of the Bennu Asteriod, created using pictures from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx satellite that was near the asteroid for over two years. Courtesy of NASA via Wikimedia ...