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

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

Scientists have identified 14 of the 20 amino acids used by terrestrial life, as well as the five nucleic acid bases that make up DNA and RNA. These molecules, although not alive, indicate that the ...

Human genes that encode proteins often contain non-coding segments known as introns. Removing introns is crucial for the proper expression of genetic information. Understanding how our cells ...

It's important to note that researchers are likely at least 10 to 30 years away from creating mirror bacteria. On the ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism — a novel genomically recoded organism ...

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

In human cells, only a small proportion of the information written in genes is used to produce proteins. How does the cell select this information? A large molecular machine called the spliceosome ...