A microscopic organism from a freshwater pond is playing by a different set of genetic rules. The newly identified protist, Oligohymenophorea sp. PL0344, which scientists stumbled across while ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 amino acids. But certain groups of microbes have an expanded genetic code, in ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? "We find ...

Evolutionary biologist Paul Hebert revolutionized biodiversity research with DNA barcoding, inspiring a global effort to ...

Carbon-X can analyze DNA sequences while running on your laptop at home.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Recent breakthroughs in genetics research may have uncovered new genes underlying common psychiatric disorders. Schizophrenia and ...

There may be no invention more important to the smooth functioning of consumer commerce than the bar code, that pattern of skinny lines that turns a simple cash register into an impressive ...