As screening and early treatment for type 1 diabetes become more widespread, the European action for the Diagnosis of Early ...

Scientists have created Syn57, a completely synthetic bacterium with a genetic code unlike anything in nature. Unlike all known life, which uses 64 codons to build proteins, Syn57 only uses 57 — ...

An illustration of E. coli. Scientists have been racing to shrink the genetic code of this bacterium. Kateryna Kon / Science Photo Library via Getty Images The DNA of nearly all life on Earth is made ...

The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies served a purpose or if they were just leftovers from evolutionary processes ...

Almost all organisms follow a basic rule to make proteins. Information in DNA is encoded by codons made of three bases, or letters, and most life uses 64 codons to code for 20 naturally occurring ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Research suggests that using cannabis may alter a person's epigenetic code. The research suggested that marijuana use can impact the genetic code responsible for activating and ...

To overcome the inherent challenge of translation termination interference caused by stop codon reprogramming in mammalian cells, researchers from Peking University led by Chen Peng from College of ...

We have all heard of messenger RNA (mRNA) by now, but what about transfer RNA (tRNA)? Well, there is a growing awareness that this emerging technology is capable of a myriad of biological functions ...

For decades, cat lovers and scientists alike have wondered why most orange cats are male while calicos and tortoiseshells are almost exclusively female. Thanks to groundbreaking research by Stanford ...

Ultra-rapid digital droplet PCR can measure the levels of tumor cells in a tissue sample in about 15 minutes. (HealthDay News) — Intraoperative ultra-rapid droplet digital polymerase chain reaction ...