The report details a new computer program that can read the genome sequence of any organism and then determine its genetic code.

What is in charge of the genetic code? The answer seems to be another code, infinitely more subtle and mind-bendingly more complex than DNA’s string of genetic letters.

Scientists have discovered a second code hiding within DNA. The second code contains information that changes how scientists read the instructions contained in DNA and interpret mutations to make ...

The codon sequence is read from the center of the wheel of genetic code. Mouagip via Wikimedia Commons Ribosomes read three-letter words called codons, and there are 64 different possible ...

Pioneers such as 23andMe and Navigenics use snips of genes to make medical predictions. Now new tools from more startups are on the horizon ...

Redefining what cells understand when they interpret the genetic code.

But a first-of-its-kind comparison of genetic codes from 62 animals is beginning to tell the story of how people - and other mammals - lost their locks.

Quantum physics could come to the aid of medical science thanks to a new technique for identifying DNA that utilizes the quantum effect of tunnelling. The method, developed by physicists in the US, ...

Arrow worms, or chaetognaths, are strange ocean predators that have puzzled scientists for more than a century. They have transparent, torpedo-shaped bodies, sharp grasping spines near their ...

Scientists have a powerful new tool for controlling the coronavirus: Its own genetic code. The United States, home to the world’s biggest outbreak, has failed to tap the technique’s full ...