Despite awe-inspiring diversity, nearly every lifeform – from bacteria to blue whales – shares the same genetic code. How and when this code came about has been the subject of much scientific ...

Nearly all living organisms use the same genetic code, a complicated mechanism by which genetic information is translated into proteins, the building blocks of life. A new study suggests conventional ...

This virus was isolated from a composting soil sample in the city of Jyväskylä ... structure of Jyvaskylavirus at a resolution of 6.3 Å. Cross-structural and sequence comparison allowed us to identify ...

EMBL's scientists have been instrumental in helping the world understand, decode, archive, and manipulate genomes at scale ...

As we approach the end of 2024, First Opinion is publishing a series of essays on the state of AI in medicine and biopharma. ...

A newly developed approach can precisely produce four-stranded β-sheets through metal–peptide coordination, report ...

Researchers unveil a method to precisely create four-stranded berta-sheets via metal-peptide coordination, overcoming ...

Combining several existing datasets, scientists zeroed in on thousands of potential new genes that make roughly 3,000 ...