Engineered viruses are the delivery vehicle of choice for many genetic medicines, but they pose several problems. In addition to the risk of dangerous immune responses, these viruses don’t go to all ...

Scientists at UC Berkeley have discovered a microbe that bends one of biology’s most sacred rules. Instead of treating a specific three-letter DNA code as a clear “stop” signal, this methane-producing ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? A recent ...