The new findings strengthen the "RNA world" hypothesis that describes how the first life on Earth could have used RNA instead ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? Subscribe ...

For decades, biology textbooks taught that DNA’s story could be told with a single image: two elegant strands twisting in a ...

Researchers have revealed that so-called “junk DNA” contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s disease. By experimentally testing nearly 1,000 DNA switches in human ...

For decades, biology has relied on one central assumption: the genetic code is precise. DNA is transcribed into RNA, RNA is ...

Comparison of a single-stranded RNA and a double-stranded DNA with their corresponding nucleobases. (Image: Wikimedia Commons, CC SA 3.0) The most common type of base pairing is the Watson-Crick base ...

Innovative research into the gene-editing tool targets influenza’s ability to replicate—stopping it in its tracks.

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Most people know that inherited traits between generations is a genetic process, but ...