Chemists at University College London have shown how two of biology's most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) ...

DNA holds our genetic blueprints, but its cousin, RNA, conducts our daily lives I n 1957, just four years after Francis Crick ...

Chemists at UCL (University College London) have shown how two of biology’s most fundamental ingredients, RNA (ribonucleic acid) and amino acids, could have spontaneously joined together at the origin ...

Could DNA be glycosylated? A new study published in Engineering explores this intriguing question, suggesting that DNA might undergo glycosylation, a process that could revolutionize our understanding ...

During translation, which is the second major step in gene expression, the mRNA is "read" according to the genetic code, which relates the DNA sequence to the amino acid sequence in proteins ...

Our cells produce a variety of proteins, each with a specific role that, in many cases, means that they need to be in a ...

An illustration of E. coli. Scientists have been racing to shrink the genetic code of this bacterium. Kateryna Kon / Science Photo Library via Getty Images The DNA of nearly all life on Earth is ...

DeepMVP might eventually be applied to cancer, neurological conditions, and cardiovascular diseases, and accelerate discoveries in genetics.

Archaeology Human Evolution DNA has an expiration date. But proteins are revealing secrets about our ancient ancestors we never thought possible.