Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make ...

A team from the University of Illinois has uncovered surprising evolutionary links between the genetic code and tiny protein ...

Autosomal DNA tests are a way of looking at the code that exists inside of all of your cells. They reveal a world of genetic information that can be used medically and to discover your ethnic makeup.

Snifflers of the world rejoice: Scientists are one step closer to finding effective treatments for the common cold now that researchers have deciphered the genetic code of the ubiquitous virus. While ...

As wildly diverse as life on Earth is—whether it’s a jaguar hunting down a deer in the Amazon, an orchid vine spiraling around a tree in the Congo, primitive cells growing in boiling hot springs in ...

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 ...

Imagine a world where dangerous conditions in unborn babies can be treated with diamonds smaller than a virus, where gold can ...

Nagpur: \"Genetics is no longer a side branch but a central part of medical practice,\" remarked Dr Shubha Phadke, one of ...