Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...

Researchers developed a technique to gain a deeper understanding of ribosome function and their cooperative behaviors.

How life evolved is one of the central questions in science and has fascinated humans for centuries. Early Earth was undoubtedly a harsh environment, but we know surprisingly little about the ...

The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. The search is on to find out ...

Ramakrishnan, a distinguished structural biologist and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (2009), is renowned for his groundbreaking ...

A share represents a unit of equity ownership in a company. Shareholders are entitled to any profits that the company may earn in the form of dividends. They are also the bearers of any losses ...

Scientists at the Macquarie University in Australia worked with an international team of scientists to achieve a major milestone in synthetic biology by completing the creation of the final chromo ...

Different types of antibodies are produced by your immune system. These five antibodies help fight disease by detecting viruses, bacteria, and other pathogens (disease-causing microorganisms) and ...

“What kind of American are you?” asks the militiaman of each journalist. He speaks calmly before nonchalantly killing one Asian-featured reporter, then asking again, and shooting another.

Open reading frames (ORFs) are parts of a reading frame that contain no stop codons. A reading frame is a sequence of nucleotide triplets that are read as codons specifying amino acids ...

A focus group is reviewing a new product and none of them believe it works. When asked for a testimonial, many in the group say the product is excellent.

Fingering means using your fingers to stimulate another person's genitals. The clitoris is the most sensitive area for fingering because it has so many nerve endings, two to three times more ...