The moves to fire or sideline generals and admirals are without precedent in recent decades and have rattled the top brass. Credit...Photographs by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Agence France-Presse — ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

Senate health committee Chairman Bill Cassidy, MD (R-La.), blasted the American Medical Association (AMA) for continuing what he called a "government-backed monopoly" over Current Procedural ...

Scientists in the UK have rewritten one of life’s oldest operating systems. They have built a bacterium that functions with a stripped-down genetic code, eliminating seven of the 64 instructions used ...

We’ve heard of GMOs, but this is ridiculous. Scientists at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology say they’ve engineered a bacteria whose genetic code is more efficient than ...

The University of South Florida is leveraging its position as Florida’s leader in genetic counseling and precision medicine to help launch a statewide program that will give families the option to ...

The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies served a purpose or if they were just leftovers from evolutionary processes ...

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than all natural species do. By Carl Zimmer At the heart of all life is a code.

We have gone further than ever before in creating life that is unlike anything that has evolved naturally. The genome of an Escherichia coli bacterium has been redesigned on a computer to use just 57 ...

Liquid culture flasks of bacteria grown in yellow broth covered with tinfoil on a shaker. Bacterial strains needed to be tested every step of the way to create the highly compressed genome. Credit: ...

United States Senator Ron Wyden is pressing the United States Departments of Homeland Security and Justice to explain how and why they are collecting DNA from immigrants, including children, on a ...

Palm Harbor state Rep. Adam Anderson's son, Andrew, died at age 4 from a rare disease. He was a sponsor of the Sunshine Genetics Act. The Sunshine Genetics Act creates a pilot program led by the ...