An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

Tiny repeated stretches of DNA in your genome may quietly shape how your body works, how your brain develops and how you ...

Syntax Bio, a synthetic biology company programming the next generation of cell therapies, today announced the publication of ...

Complex life may have started its rise in Earth’s oxygen-free oceans nearly a billion years earlier than anyone imagined.

In 1933, geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for demonstrating that genes exist on chromosomes, which are passed down from parent to offspring. Ninety-one years ...

NYU biologists identified the unique transcriptional machinery that ants use to choose a single scent receptor out of the 500 ...

This month Genome Research publishes a special issue highlighting novel advances in computational biology. In collaboration ...

With a new study in the journal Cell, researchers at Stanford University and Stockholm University have contributed to ...

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Marvin Collins ’22, a bioengineering student, was balancing their Stanford classes from home in Alabama while also helping bioengineering professor ...

To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to ...

Cancer isn't just about broken genes—it's about broken architecture. Imagine a city where roads suddenly vanish, cutting off ...

Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ...