For decades, the central dogma of molecular biology—DNA makes RNA, RNA makes protein, protein makes phenotype—was the guiding framework for understanding inheritance and disease. This model explained ...

Genes contain instructions for making proteins, and a central dogma of biology is that this information flows from DNA to RNA to proteins. But only two percent of the human genome actually encodes ...

He was only 37 when he made a discovery that challenged the existing tenets of biology and led to an understanding of ...

Recent advancements in glycobiology have challenged the traditional understanding of molecular interactions, and a new study ...

David Baltimore, one of the most influential molecular biologists of the 20th century and a Nobel Prize laureate, has died at ...

Molecular biology is concerned with understanding processes in living organisms at a molecular level, as well as the chemical and physical structure of macromolecules. Molecular biologists focus on ...

Based on papers from two conferences, the first held in Boston, April 14-15, 1991, and the second held in New York, N.Y., Jan. 16-1993; with new papers added. Contents Philosophy, history, and ...