The vampire squid is a creature straight out of a gothic horror film. It lurks in the deep-sea abyss, cloaked in dark, webbed ...

The beauty of the DNA code is that organisms interpret it unambiguously. Each three-letter nucleotide sequence, or codon, in a gene codes for a unique ...

Georgia students broke into the world spotlight after showcasing early Lyme detection advances that could save patients years of suffering.

Some of the oldest objects in the solar system still drift above your head. Asteroids and comets formed before Earth took ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints that poorly understood prions may have been the vital missing ingredient ...

Metagenomi, Inc. (Nasdaq: MGX) (the “Company”), an in vivo genome editing company capitalizing on its proprietary ...

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

Ribosomes, the protein factories of the cell, are essential for all living organisms. They bind to mRNA and move along the ...

Yet Crick was not afraid to be wrong. Before settling on the double helix, he proposed a triple one. He published an ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...

Boston startup Bystro AI believes the mail-in genetic tests used by millions to trace their ancestry could also help people ...