This narrated animation illustrates the process of protein synthesis, starting with chromosomal DNA inside the cell's nucleus. A gene is transcribed into messenger RNA, which leaves the nucleus and ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make ...

How does the cell convert DNA into working proteins? The process of translation can be seen as the decoding of instructions for making proteins, involving mRNA in transcription as well as tRNA. But ...

DNA consists of a code language comprising four letters which make up what are known as codons, or words, each three letters long. Interpreting the language of the genetic code was the work of ...

Researchers at the University of Bath have discovered how DNA damage caused by a faulty DNA protection ... including mutations of the gene that codes for a protein called CFAP410. The full functions ...

Results from a three-year trial suggest an experimental gene therapy for Huntington's disease can slow the progression of the deadly condition by 75%.

For decades, scientists have known that bacteria can exchange genetic material, in a process called horizontal gene transfer.