Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, ...

A study led by Sawsan Wehbi, a doctoral student in genetics, suggests that traditional models of genetic code evolution need revision. Published in PNAS, the research argues that the widely ...

We've heard of GMOs, but this is ridiculous. A bombshell report published by scientists at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular ...

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

The genetic code acts as life’s instruction manual, telling cells how to build proteins from DNA and RNA. Though it's a marvel of molecular precision, the path it took to evolve remains unclear ...

Study sheds light on the origin of the genetic code Conventional wisdom about the evolution of the universal genetic code, used by nearly all living organisms to translate genetic information into ...

New research links an ancient DNA sequence to neuron growth, brain-cell balance, and a cognitive flexibility trait that may ...

For example, one of the cornerstones of conventional views of genetic code evolution rests on the famous Urey-Miller experiment of 1952, which attempted to simulate the conditions on early Earth ...

Arrow worms, or chaetognaths, are strange ocean predators that have puzzled scientists for more than a century. They have ...

Orangutans, mice, and horses are covered with it, but humans aren’t. Why we have significantly less body hair than most other mammals has long remained a mystery. But a first-of-its-kind comparison of ...

Importantly, the genetic code is nearly universal, shared by all known organisms. This universality suggests that the genetic code originated very early in the evolution of life.