The entire human genome requires three gigabytes of computer data storage space. (One million base pairs of sequence data ...

A new interpretable deep learning framework called EnhancerDetector identifies gene enhancers from DNA sequence alone across ...

Nevertheless, some preliminary steps have been taken. Researchers have managed to add some new amino acids to a bacterial cell and were able to make proteins that were one amino acid less than usual.

Evolution is driven by changes in DNA that sometimes promote adaptation, altering traits like disease resistance or ...

What if biology stopped being something we study and started becoming something we design? That’s the premise of Adrian Woolfson’s new book, On the Future of Species: Authoring Life by Means of ...

The genetic code is usually described as an orderly language, read one letter after another in precise three-letter units.

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon—using a cellular platform that they developed ...

Imagine a detective sketch drawn not from a witness’s memory, but from a few cells left at a crime scene. That vision, long ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Recent breakthroughs in genetics research may have uncovered new genes underlying common psychiatric disorders. Schizophrenia and ...

Scientists at Houston Methodist Research Institute have discovered that a fast-rising strep bacterium comes in more forms than expected, including ones that may lead to life-threatening infections.

There may be no invention more important to the smooth functioning of consumer commerce than the bar code, that pattern of skinny lines that turns a simple cash register into an impressive ...

A study found 55 DNA methylation regions differed in pediatric MS, with Epstein-Barr virus infection emerging as the top-ranked pathway.