Despite awe-inspiring diversity, nearly every lifeform—from bacteria to blue whales—shares the same genetic code. How and when this code came about has been the subject of much scientific controversy.

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...

Your genetic code is not as logical as it could be. What if we could rewrite our genetic code, and make it more efficient, ...

UC Berkeley scientists discovered that a microbe can interpret the UAG stop codon in two ways, producing different proteins ...

Fulgent Genetics is rated Hold due to strong diagnostic revenue growth but an unproven transition into integrated precision ...

Analysis of more than 1 million people shows that mental-health disorders fall into five clusters, each of them linked to a ...

Geneticist Professor Turi King paints a more vivid picture of history through her work and her most recent project was her ...

A US clinic is offering would-be parents the chance to select traits like height and intelligence to "genetically optimise" ...

Three-year-old Nathaniel Clayton started having problems with his vision when he was just six months old. After numerous ...

Get all the festive feels with a new version of the coming-of-age classic. Maya Hawke, Emily Watson and Angela Lansbury lead ...

A new and unique cat coat color, named salmiak, has been discovered, and it’s shaking up what we know about feline genetics.

Sport England has announced 27 new partnerships that will benefit from its place-based approach, which aims to reduce the ...