Mark Temple during rehearsal of drums part for Molecular Rock The Molecular Rock Album features Science Audio made from DNA Sequences and will be performed at Sydney Opera House during National ...

DNA contains foundational information needed to sustain life. Understanding how this information is stored and organized has been one of the greatest scientific challenges of the last century. With ...

Scientists first read the human genome, a three-billion-letter biological book, in April 2003. Since then, researchers have steadily advanced the ability to write DNA, moving far beyond single-gene ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

A new theory that explains why the language of our genes is more complex than it needs to be also suggests that the primordial soup where life began on earth was hot and not cold, as many scientists ...

Non-coding DNA is essential for both humans and trypanosomes, despite the large evolutionary divergence between these two species.