Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make ...

A team from the University of Illinois has uncovered surprising evolutionary links between the genetic code and tiny protein ...

The same amino acid can be encoded by anywhere from one to six different strings of letters in the genetic code. Andrzej Wojcicki/Science Photo Library via Getty Images Nearly all life, from bacteria ...

This circular diagram represents the genetic code, showing how the four nucleotide bases of RNA (adenine [A], cytosine [C], guanine [G], and uracil [U]) form codons that specify amino acids. Each ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois discovered that tiny protein pairs, or dipeptides, hold evolutionary clues to ...

Autosomal DNA tests are a way of looking at the code that exists inside of all of your cells. They reveal a world of genetic information that can be used medically and to discover your ethnic makeup.

Snifflers of the world rejoice: Scientists are one step closer to finding effective treatments for the common cold now that researchers have deciphered the genetic code of the ubiquitous virus. While ...

As wildly diverse as life on Earth is—whether it’s a jaguar hunting down a deer in the Amazon, an orchid vine spiraling around a tree in the Congo, primitive cells growing in boiling hot springs in ...

Imagine a world where dangerous conditions in unborn babies can be treated with diamonds smaller than a virus, where gold can ...