For most of the history of life on Earth, genetic information has been carried in a code that specifies just 20 amino acids. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, which do most of the heavy ...

How to identify the next dangerous virus before it spreads among people is the central question in a new Comment in The ...

Nearly all living organisms use the same genetic code, a complicated mechanism by which genetic information is translated into proteins, the building blocks of life. A new study suggests conventional ...

Artificial intelligence could be a valuable tool for detecting emerging diseases earlier, researchers from five European ...