The synthetic bacteria contain a shorter genetic code with 57 codons rather than 64, freeing up space for further edits that might lead to new drugs or virus-resistant microbes ...

Maybe the system that codes Earth life—including your own DNA—was set by extraterrestrial biochemistry. And what about OSIRIS-REx?

They observed widespread activity of the gene in yeast despite the lack in the nonsense code of promoters, DNA snippets that evolved to signal for the start of transcription.

In this episode of Tiny Show and Tell Us, we cover exciting new 'living robots' called xenobots — made from frog cells with the help of a supercomputer — and what they might be used for down the road.

In a recent paper published in Scientific Reports, a peer-reviewed journal, Henderson and Oh described how they constructed DNA nanoparticles capable of expressing genetic code. Having gene-bearing ...

An international team of scientists a family genome sequences known as “transposable elements,” and found they play a vital role in gene expression.