We are on the verge of a scientific revolution that will change life and death as we currently know it. In the Code of the Wild documentary film, Cody Sheehy (award winning producer and director) and ...

(Program not available for streaming.) What will it mean when most of us can afford to have the information in our DNA—all six billion chemical letters of it—read, stored and available for analysis?

We are on the brink of an era of personalized, gene-based medicine. Are we ready for it? We are on the brink of a new era of personalized, gene-based medicine. Are we ready for it?

The genetic code is a set of rules defining how the four-letter code of DNA is translated into the 20-letter code of amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins. The genetic code is a set ...

Alternative genetic decoding can be either a global phenomenon that affects the decoding of most or all mRNAs, or a local recoding that affects particular sites in a few mRNAs. Global alterations in ...

The DNA that is central to life on our own planet may not be a given in the rest of the universe. All cellular life on Earth is based on DNA, which transfers information—about everything from hair ...

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 human genetic code will be built from scratch by British scientists in a controversial new research project. The £10 million scheme to synthesise DNA is being funded by the Wellcome Trust and ...