DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the fundamental building block of life. It carries the genetic instructions that dictate ...

A group of St. Bonaventure University science faculty and students shared the excitement and fun of science with children and ...

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

By fusing circular dichroism with high-resolution microspectroscopy and microscopic imaging, this cutting-edge technology is ...

This week at AAAS, PNNL scientists and colleagues discuss phenomics, exposomics, and the factors that influence DNA ...

Researchers around the world are working on new technologies to capture carbon from the atmosphere, but many approaches fall short on one key metric: their ability to scale. Nature, however, has ...

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 ...

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

The instructions for building and operating a human being are written with just four letters, abbreviated A,T,C and G representing four chemicals arranged like steps that are strung along in a ...

Protein synthesis is vital for life, translating genetic information from DNA to functional proteins through transcription ...