For decades, biologists have known that the instructions for life are written in DNA, yet the vast majority of those letters seemed to sit in the dark, doing little that was obvious. Now a new ...

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Our DNA code provides the “blueprint” for life, enabling our cellular machinery to produce proteins that carry out essential molecular functions. While each cell possesses the same DNA code, the ...

In 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick published the molecular structure of the biological hereditary material deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) whose famous double-helical structure is now imprinted in the ...

Mutations are changes in the molecular 'letters' that make up the DNA code, the blueprint for all living cells. Some of these changes can have little effect, but others can lead to diseases, including ...

Mutations are changes in the molecular "letters" that make up the DNA code, the blueprint for all living cells. Some of these changes can have little effect, but others can lead to diseases, including ...

As scientists gain an increasing ability to build synthetic genomes to specific design criteria, this is enabling the production of cells that have beneficial properties not found in the natural world ...