The team at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology calls their creation Syn57. It is a synthetic ...

U.S. medical experts studied genetic code and found 275 million new variants that could explain why some people are more prone to disease than others.

These findings hint at earlier genetic codes distinct from the modern one. “This gives clues about other genetic codes that existed before ours and have since disappeared,” Masel explained.

Once scientists say they've cracked the genetic code of avocado, they can alter it. They would do that to help avocados survive higher temperatures and prolonged drought.

Scientists have obtained genetic material from the ancient Minoans and Mycenaeans, who lived three to five thousand years ago ...