Researchers discover that messenger RNA discarded by laboratories is the biological key to preventing essential proteins from ...

For decades, biologists have known that the instructions for life are written in DNA, yet the vast majority of those letters seemed to sit in the dark, doing little that was obvious. Now a new ...

Almost 1,500 genes have been implicated in intellectual disabilities; yet for most people with such disabilities, genetic causes remain unknown. Perhaps this is in part because geneticists have been ...

Synthetic biology aims to modify cellular behaviors by implementing genetic circuits that respond to changes in cell state. Integrating genetic biosensors into endogenous gene coding sequences using ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and collaborators at the University of Bristol, KU Leuven, and the NIHR BioResource, have identified a neurodevelopmental disorder, caused ...

In prokaryotes, reverse transcriptases (RTs) — which catalyse the transcription of RNA into DNA — serve important roles in genomic mobility, adaptation and evolution. Several RTs have been associated ...

Cells are defined by the genes they express. In human cells, there are thousands of different protein coding genes, and the expression of those genes is carefully orchestrated and controlled by a ...

Researchers have revealed that so-called ‘junk DNA’ contains powerful switches that help control brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s disease. When people picture DNA, they often imagine a set of genes ...

We tend to think of the DNA strands that contain our genetic code as consistent, stable units. But in reality, the cells that ...

Genes aren't just transferred from parents to their offspring. Nature has found other ways to pass on genetic information, ...

(Erik Karits/Unsplash) Cockroaches tend to be thought of as the creatures that keep on living through anything, in part due ...

The function of non-coding RNA in the cell has long been a mystery to researchers. Unlike coding RNA, non-coding RNA does not produce proteins—yet it exists in large quantities. A research team from ...