In this series, ‘Genomics 101’, we go back to basics and explore some of the most important topics in genomics. In this blog, ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...

The language of protein translation contains synonyms. Each three-nucleotide sequence on a strand of messenger RNA is called a codon and corresponds to the instruction to add a particular amino acid ...

For decades, biologists treated DNA as a static string of letters, a linear code that cells read like text on a page. A new ...

All the cells in an organism have the exact same genetic sequence. What differs across cell types is their epigenetics-meticulously placed chemical tags that influence which genes are expressed in ...

The DNA inside of living organisms is packed with information, so much so that it's hard to search genetic databases, but ...

The wholly synthetic mRNA vaccines for Covid-19 saved nearly 20 million lives in just their first year of use, according to data published in 2022 by The Lancet. That success stands as the most ...

After a spinal cord injury, cells in the brain and spinal cord change to cope with stress and repair tissue. A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Neuroscience, shows that this ...