An incredible genetic analysis reveals that a lungfish has a larger genome than a human. We explore what this means.

Difference Between DNA and RNA: DNA is a deoxyribonucleic acid and is a hereditary material in all living organisms. It is located in the nucleus of a cell which is known as nuclear DNA. But a small ...

American researchers have successfully completed the full sequencing of a human chromosome for the first time. This ...

How can just four nitrogenous bases--adenine, cytosine, guanine, and uracil--possibly code for all 20 amino acids? Thus, early researchers quickly determined that the smallest combination of As, Cs, ...

Instead of discovering it, Watson and Crick solved the structure of DNA -- one tiny piece of a very large puzzle. Here, we highlight everything that was known before their 1953 paper. If you, like ...

Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) claim to have created the first stable semisynthetic organism with extra bases added to its genetic code. The single-celled organism is also able ...