A new wave of gene therapy treatments offer a new lease on life for people with inherited diseases such as haemophilia. But ...

The same amino acid can be encoded by anywhere from one to six different strings of letters in the genetic code. Andrzej Wojcicki/Science Photo Library via Getty Images Nearly all life, from bacteria ...

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

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

Scientists claim to have created a new operating system for life — a new way of using the genetic code, allowing proteins to be made with properties that have never been seen in the natural world.

It seems to be the stuff of health-care science fiction: predicting precisely which treatments will respond to specific types of cancer and which patients will benefit most from those targeted ...

In this AI-generated illustration of Earth at the dawn of life, a distant volcano towers over shallow pools of water. It is possible the earliest life forms evolved in such environments. Credit: ...

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? A recent ...