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

Autosomal DNA tests are a way of looking at the code that exists inside of all of your cells. They reveal a world of genetic information that can be used medically and to discover your ethnic makeup.

Researchers at the University of Illinois discovered that tiny protein pairs, or dipeptides, hold evolutionary clues to ...

Despite awe-inspiring diversity, nearly every lifeform – from bacteria to blue whales – shares the same genetic code. How and when this code came about has been the subject of much scientific ...

Other rare elements are transforming medicine, too. Gadolinium is used in over a third of all MRI scans. As a contrast agent, ...

Snifflers of the world rejoice: Scientists are one step closer to finding effective treatments for the common cold now that researchers have deciphered the genetic code of the ubiquitous virus. While ...

As wildly diverse as life on Earth is—whether it’s a jaguar hunting down a deer in the Amazon, an orchid vine spiraling around a tree in the Congo, primitive cells growing in boiling hot springs in ...

The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies served a purpose or if they were just leftovers from evolutionary processes ...