Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual ... research from Northwestern Engineering’s Vadim Backman reveals a second “language” of life: the “geometric code” embedded ...

Scientists have long believed that a universal genetic code serves as a blueprint for all life on Earth, dictating the structure and function of organisms from the simplest bacteria to complex humans.

An international team led by Monash University researchers has uncovered the genetic code governing the way genetic mutations affect mRNA and result in disease.

For decades, scientists believed the essence of life was written solely in four chemical bases: A, C, T, and G. Together, ...

Ribosomes are the cell's protein factories, which read the genetic code and assemble the proteins that every organism needs ...

This 407-million-year-old species of clubmoss doesn’t follow the Fibonacci sequence like most of its living relatives.

Intracellular living therapeutics convert cellular signals into coordinated healing programs Get small and look inside. I ...

Naked mole-rats seem to have found nature’s cheat code for longevity. Scientists discovered that small tweaks in one of their ...

Lateone monsoon evening in Tiruppur, a textile buyer ran two fingers across a swatch he couldn’t quite place. It felt like ...

A new study of the bizarre naked mole rat shows that the animals have evolved a DNA repair mechanism that could explain their longevity. These burrow-dwelling rats have a maximum life span of nearly ...

Black Goo is a thick, sticky, tar-like substance with a mysterious and dubious background. It was originally introduced in Prometheus alongside the Engineers, an ancient race of aliens that were ...