The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that a DNA test without consent of an individual constitutes a clear violation of his fundamental ...

UC Berkeley scientists discovered that a microbe can interpret the UAG stop codon in two ways, producing different proteins ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints ...

The 2025 International Summit on Human Genome Editing called for: • A moratorium on heritable edits until safety and societal consensus are achieved Meanwhile, patients with devastating genetic ...

Researchers demonstrated that it is feasible to encode executable payloads into synthetic DNA that, once sequenced and ...

Three-year-old Nathaniel Clayton started having problems with his vision when he was just six months old. After numerous ...

Scientists trace Leonardo da Vinci's DNA through his descendants and family tombs to reconstruct his genetic code.

The space agency has reportedly discovered life-giving essential sugars on the asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide rock hurtling ...

This radical new method could preserve our entire knowledge base for thousands of years, in a storage medium the size of a coffee cup.