Sept. 10 (UPI) -- Google is celebrating the start of the 2025-26 school year with a DNA-themed Doodle on Wednesday.

Researchers have identified a large number of areas in the human genetic code that are involved in regulating the way in which the liver functions, in a new study of over 61,000 people, published ...

Scientists are uncovering the secrets of a fast-acting molecular messaging network that strongly influences how people and ...

The genetic code is the universal set of rules that defines how DNA and RNA sequences are translated into proteins, enabling the accurate synthesis of essential biomolecules in all living organisms.

Essentially all cells in an organism's body have the same genetic blueprint, or genome, but the set of genes that are ...

A team of scientists led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco may have uncovered a new wrinkle in the genetic code – an entirely unrecognized way our bodies regulate how genes ...

Scientists sought to work out genetic errors by creating their own artificial genome, which replaced E. coli’s original ...

Scientists have developed the world's most detailed gene map of the human retina, providing new insights which will help future research to prevent and treat blindness.

The new system developed by Professor Chad Mirkin delivers CRISPR machinery more safely and effectively into cells.

The genetic code therefore has 64 possible codons (four nucleotide possibilities at each of the three positions in a codon). Among the 64 codons, 61 are sense codons, each of which specifies 1 of ...