Scientists have discovered a previously unknown microorganism that has the smallest genome ever found and may be able to ...

Smallest archaeal genome ever recorded: Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, found in Pacific Ocean plankton, encodes only 189 proteins -- fewer than many viruses -- but retains its own ribosomes, qualifying it ...

Many insects see the world through hundreds of tiny lenses that are grouped together in a visual organ known as the compound ...

How readily a cell divides and how well it survives are fundamental to life, shaping everything from organ size to the body's ability to withstand disease. That combination, known as cell fitness, isn ...

Scientists accidentally discovered a microscopic organism with a genetic code that breaks a rule researchers thought was ...

In prokaryotic cells, transcription (DNA to mRNA) and translation (mRNA to protein) are so closely linked that translation ...

UC San Diego biologists have identified the genetic switch that added a ninth photoreceptor to butterfly eyes, revealing how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Scientists have cleared a striking hurdle in synthetic biology: They got two different genetic codes working ...

A multi-institutional study led by researchers at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and UC San Diego has uncovered new genetic rules that determine ...

A large survey of schoolchildren in Cameroon shows that sickle cell trait does not prevent asymptomatic malaria infections ...

UCLA researchers grew brain cells from dozens of genetically distinct donors together in a cell village, then built a statistical tool called Townlet to measure each donor's cell fitness — how well ...