A handful of start-up firms are testing therapies that target specific epigenetic markers to treat everything from high ...

An experimental drug has been shown to alleviate symptoms of Huntington's disease and extend lifespan in mouse models.

Researchers have demonstrated a nondestructive way to collect cellular material from historical parchment manuscripts, allowing them to conduct genetic analyses that offer new insights into everything ...

The ISC Board has made class 12th syllabus available for the academic year 2026-27. In this article we have explained the biology syllabus for class 12th students. They can check this article and ...

The discovery of all five nucleobases on Ryugu strengthens the idea that life’s molecular ingredients formed in space before ...

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.

In just a few decades, DNA sequencing technologies evolved from slow, manual processes to rapid, automated ones, making ...

The genetic code is central to life. With minor variations, everything uses the same sets of three DNA bases to encode the same 20 amino acids. We have discovered no major exceptions to this, leading ...

Not all parts of our genetic code are equal, even when they appear to say the same thing. Scientists have discovered that cells can detect less efficient genetic instructions and selectively silence ...

The asteroid Ryugu imaged by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft in 2018 JAXA / Kevin M. Gill via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-2.0 The asteroid Ryugu, millions of miles away from Earth, might not look that ...

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 ...

There are few hard and fast rules in the study of life, but perhaps the closest we get is the central dogma of molecular biology: DNA is transcribed to RNA, which gets translated into proteins. The ...