This statement might sound like a line from a sci-fi movie, but what if life on Earth didn’t start here at all? For decades, ...

As we stand on the precipice of a scientific revolution, researchers are pushing the boundaries of biology by developing ...

From CRISPR to gene banking, synthetic biology has big implications for wildlife evolution and conservation, but ethical ...

Long interspersed nuclear element-1 (LINE-1 or L1) is the only active, self-copying genetic element in the human ...

Scientists are researching ways to genetically modify plants and animals to be more resistant to threats like climate change. The IUCN is voting on whether those species should be allowed in nature.

The enhanced ability to synthesise DNA, RNA and peptides has transformed biotechnology, enabling tremendous advances in ...

The DNA “cassettes” were designed to mimic native human antibodies in sequence and assembly upon ... forty-four healthy ...

Almost all organisms follow a basic rule to make proteins. Information in DNA is encoded by codons made of three bases, or letters, and most life uses 64 codons to code for 20 naturally occurring ...

Scientists discover a byproduct of sucralose that can damage DNA, raising new questions about the safety of artificial ...