Genetic editing holds promise to treat incurable diseases, but the most popular method—CRISPR—sometimes does more harm than ...

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

CRISPR — short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats — is a method of genetic editing that uses RNA ...

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

Researchers at the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) at Heidelberg University Hospital have decoded a previously ...

When the first spark of life emerged on a young, ocean-covered Earth some four billion years ago, it didn’t happen at once.

This study illustrates a valuable application of BID-seq to bacterial RNA, allowing transcriptome-wide mapping of pseudouridine modifications across various bacterial species. The evidence presented ...

Cells use proteins to make other proteins - new research could explain how the first proteins arose without other enzymes ...