Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Recent breakthroughs in genetics research may have uncovered new genes underlying common psychiatric disorders. Schizophrenia and ...

Not all parts of our genetic code are equal, even when they appear to say the same thing. Scientists have discovered that ...

Explore the decades-long journey to map the full human genome, from early breakthroughs to the first complete, gapless DNA ...

The genome has thousands of genes that code for proteins, which help carry out many of the cell's important functions. But ...

Clinical genome sequencing now delivers genetic diagnoses for about 1 in 4 suspected rare disease patients, guiding targeted ...

The genetic code acts as life’s instruction manual, telling cells how to build proteins from DNA and RNA. (CREDIT: Adobe Stock Images) The genetic code acts as life’s instruction manual, telling cells ...

When people think of DNA, they usually think of genes, the parts that code for proteins and drive inherited traits. But there's a whole lot of DNA beyond genes that we are just starting to understand.

The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies served a purpose or if they were just leftovers from evolutionary processes ...

Each cell has their own genetic code that helps maintain viability and directs function. This genetic code is commonly referred to as deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA. DNA is the molecule that carries ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism — a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon — using a cellular platform that they developed ...