WASHINGTON -- The book of genetic instructions for the human body is complete to an accuracy of 99.99 percent, a scientific achievement once deemed impossible but now considered the foundation for a ...

The DNA inside of living organisms is packed with information, so much so that it's hard to search genetic databases, but ...

UC Berkeley scientists discovered that a microbe can interpret the UAG stop codon in two ways, producing different proteins ...

WASHINGTON — Now that scientists have published their first examinations of nearly all the human genetic code — the genome — the job of figuring it out and reaping benefits is just beginning. Imagine ...

(Medical Xpress) -- A protein essential for metabolism and recently associated with neurodegenerative diseases also occurs in several brain-specific forms. This discovery emerged in the course of a ...

Scientists discovered that the first 100 base pairs of human genes are unusually prone to mutations, especially during the ...

The genetic instructions for making a person take up less than one inch of the six-foot-long strand of DNA that's stuffed inside virtually every cell in the body, according to the new findings. Most ...

Scientists have marveled at the ingenuity of the DNA code since it was first deciphered in the early sixties, but now it appears that there is much more to it than previously known. A research team at ...