On May 27, 1961, Heinrich Matthaei, a postdoc working with NIH scientist Marshal Nirenberg, placed synthetic polyuracil RNA into 20 test tubes to see what it would produce. Each tube contained ...

Orangutans, mice, and horses are covered with it, but humans aren't. Why we have significantly less body hair than most other mammals has long remained a mystery. But a first-of-its-kind comparison of ...

An international team led by Monash University researchers has uncovered the genetic code governing the way genetic mutations ...

In 2005, immunologist David Hafler, then at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, visited the laboratory of geneticist John Todd at the University of Cambridge, UK. Hafler was studying ...

All living things on Earth use a version of the same genetic code. Every cell makes proteins using the same 20 amino acids. Ribosomes, the protein-making machinery within cells, read the genetic code ...

The genetics of a marine protozoan may overturn one of the long-held tenets of protein synthesis. According to conventional wisdom, the genetic code is unambiguous: each DNA triplet, or codon, ...

Delaney Van Riper’s genes contain an error. Were we to look at her genetic code in a Microsoft Word document, it would be really hard to find the written ...

Throw another mammoth on the barbie? An Australian company this week lifted the glass cloche on a meatball made of lab-grown cultured meat using the genetic sequence from the long-extinct pachyderm, ...

Growth charts for children with rare genetic disorders - giving healthcare professionals and families clearer guidance on how ...