Scientists have accurately calculated the sliding mechanism for deciphering the second genetic code written within the DNA base pair sequence.

How DNA Is Unwound So That Its Code Can Be Read Date: November 28, 2008 Source: Scripps Research Institute Summary: Researchers have figured out how a macromolecular machine is able to unwind the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists are working to create yeast that operates with custom-made DNA. They have long been able to make specific changes in an organism's DNA. Now, they're pushing into the ...

Scientists have unveiled incredible images of how the DNA code is read and interpreted – revealing new detail about one of the fundamental processes of life.

DNA gives us the list of materials that make us human. Now we need to learn how to read the instructions that tell us how they are put together.

The advent of DNA sequencing in the 1980s changed the game. Now, by reading the genetic code that makes an organism what it is, scientists could glean new insights into species’ evolutionary ...

Since then, scientists have moved beyond piecing together what DNA molecules look like to reading the entire genetic code that it stores, called genomes, in thousands of organisms.

Unexpected slowdowns or spikes in this signal were often interpreted as knots in DNA. But now, a new study published Aug. 12 in the journal Physics Review X finds that these signal changes can also ...

Stretches of DNA that code for genes have a low density of these signal sequences. The researchers also found another factor that influences whether transcription is allowed to continue.

The Human Genome Project – an international 13-year collaboration that mapped out all of the genes in humans – discovered approximately 50,000 variances (differences in the individual DNA code ...