Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...

WTOP’s Matt Kaufax takes an even deeper dive into the Smithsonian Natural History Museum’s “Ocean Library” through DNA collection.

An illustration of E. coli. Scientists have been racing to shrink the genetic code of this bacterium. Kateryna Kon / Science Photo Library via Getty Images The DNA of nearly all life on Earth is made ...

The Reverse Translate tool is a professional bioinformatics application designed to back-translate protein sequences into optimized nucleotide sequences. While the natural biological flow (Central ...

We have gone further than ever before in creating life that is unlike anything that has evolved naturally. The genome of an Escherichia coli bacterium has been redesigned on a computer to use just 57 ...

Liquid culture flasks of bacteria grown in yellow broth covered with tinfoil on a shaker. Bacterial strains needed to be tested every step of the way to create the highly compressed genome. Credit: ...

Bushy eyebrows. DNA on a knife sheath. Amazon purchase records. The evidence that Judge Steven Hippler is allowing prosecutors to admit in the death penalty trial of Brian Kohberger is substantial.

Traditional vaccines contain weak or inactive forms of viruses or bacteria. They stimulate your body's immune system to respond to the disease-causing substance, which protects you if you're exposed ...

Newly discovered DNA could shed light on one of Italy's most famous cold cases, finally revealing the "Monster of Florence" serial killer who murdered young couples in the 1970s and 80s. More than ...

Around 2% of the genomes of modern Eurasians contains Neanderthal DNA. Here's how it affects our health. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

When Steve Edsel was a boy, his adoptive parents kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings in their bedroom closet. He would ask for it sometimes, poring over the headlines about his birth. Headlines ...