A new wave of gene therapy treatments offer a new lease on life for people with inherited diseases such as haemophilia. But ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...

Despite awe-inspiring diversity, nearly every lifeform—from bacteria to blue whales—shares the same genetic code. How and when this code came about has been the subject of much scientific controversy.

Analysis of more than 1 million people shows that mental-health disorders fall into five clusters, each of them linked to a ...

Your genetic code is not as logical as it could be. What if we could rewrite our genetic code, and make it more efficient, sensical and organized? Join Hank and dive deep into genetics in this fun ...

UC Berkeley scientists discovered that a microbe can interpret the UAG stop codon in two ways, producing different proteins based on environmental cues. This breaks a long-held biological rule that ...

A US clinic is offering would-be parents the chance to select traits like height and intelligence to "genetically optimise" ...

Three-year-old Nathaniel Clayton started having problems with his vision when he was just six months old. After numerous ...

Get all the festive feels with a new version of the coming-of-age classic. Maya Hawke, Emily Watson and Angela Lansbury lead ...

Geneticist Professor Turi King paints a more vivid picture of history through her work and her most recent project was her ...

In a special edition of GEN Live to wrap up 2025, we are thrilled to welcome special guest Matthew Cobb, PhD, author of a wonderful new biography of Francis Crick, PhD, entitled CRICK: A Mind in ...

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