An essential cellular enzyme successfully transcribed synthetic DNA letters, bringing expanded genetic codes closer to biological use.

RNA droplets can concentrate the molecule with no membrane at all, and a single oxygen atom sets how much heat it takes to ...

Scientists have demonstrated RNA polymerase can read eight genetic letters. This enzyme accurately transcribes synthetic DNA, ...

Cells have all kinds of intricate machinery to control genes, switching them on and off at the right times and under the ...

Researchers at UC San Diego have demonstrated that a key cellular enzyme can accurately read an eight-letter genetic alphabet ...

Your DNA is continually damaged by sources both inside and outside your body. One especially severe form of damage called a double-strand break involves the severing of both strands of the DNA double ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — It’s one of the origins of life’s chicken-or-the-egg problems: How could RNA have helped give rise to the first cells before there were cells to contain them? Without the ...

A new study led by Francesca Storici, a professor in the School of Biological Sciences and faculty member of the Parker H.

Scientists have identified a previously unrecognized layer of the human genome. It’s built not ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Double-strand breaks in DNA can be deadly. Victor Golmer/iStock via Getty Images Plus Your DNA is continually damaged by sources ...