Late last month, Anthropic claimed it had discovered a curious stretch of DNA in a virus called a bacteriophage that repeats ...

A microscopic organism from a freshwater pond is playing by a different set of genetic rules. The newly identified protist, ...

If you could peer inside a cell's nucleus, you would find DNA tightly packed into a remarkably small space. But that arrangement presents a puzzle: DNA molecules carry the same negative electrical ...

A record player-like microscope and computer simulations solve a longtime mystery, showing that metal ions bridge DNA strands that would normally repel.

The amino acid arginine helps keep the human body humming, most notably by synthesizing proteins that carry out a range of cellular processes. It's produced by our bodies and found in common ...

As Charlene Valledor, cosmetic chemist and co-founder of SOS Beauty explains, amino acid hair treatments are typically designed to strengthen and smooth hair by filling in the gaps in the cuticle and ...

Nearly all known life builds proteins from the same alphabet of 20 canonical amino acids. Strung together in different orders, those building blocks form the proteins that make cells work. In a new ...

The genetic building blocks of life—formed from the four nucleotides adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T)—are read in groups of three known as codons. While some codons (known as ...

Human genes are written in long strings of three-letter units composed of four different nucleotides. These units—or codons—specify one of many amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. Multiple ...

We encourage industry experts from biotech/pharma to join this exciting new endeavor to unlock targeted delivery of therapeutic nucleic acids. Please reach out to Ken or Dima to learn more. An ...

Scientists at UC Berkeley have discovered a microbe that bends one of biology’s most sacred rules. Instead of treating a specific three-letter DNA code as a clear “stop” signal, this methane-producing ...