The team studied Rhodotorula toruloides, a red yeast used to produce substances called oleochemicals. Scientists use a ...

Han Xiao's research pioneers genetic reprogramming using noncanonical amino acids to control cellular functions and enzyme activities in vivo.

The team at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology calls their creation Syn57. It is a synthetic ...

Researchers have unveiled a new type of nanostructure that dramatically improves CRISPR delivery. Called lipid nanoparticle ...

Essentially all cells in an organism's body have the same genetic blueprint, or genome, but the set of genes that are ...

The new system developed by Professor Chad Mirkin delivers CRISPR machinery more safely and effectively into cells.

A group of scientists at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center has revealed a new genetic code that acts like a cancer ringleader, recruiting and deploying a gang of tumor cells to incite a ...

One tool, multiple functions In the past, addressing multiple, unrelated genetic abnormalities at once—by, say, editing one gene and suppressing another—would have required multiple distinct ...

Moreover, the researchers suggest that the current genetic code is the result of the survival of one among several primitive genetic codes, now extinct. This raises fascinating questions about the ...

“The genetic code is nearly optimal for numerous functions,” said Joanna Masel, the paper’s senior author. “It’s a mind-bogglingly complicated process, yet it must have evolved in stages.