DNA normally uses four letters. In lab tests, a bacterial enzyme successfully read eight, including four synthetic bases.

A study of more than 1 million people found genetic influences on the Big Five traits that shape our personality.

Personality was also linked to where people lived in midlife, the researchers found, using information from the UK Biobank ...

What makes you who you are? The sum total of your experiences? The genes you were born with? It's a difficult question to contemplate (and one some people struggle their whole lives trying to ...

Researchers identify more than 1,200 personality-linked genetic variants, with effects largely independent of family background.

Researchers have discovered that mammalian genes can combine to make chimeric mRNAs, which carry the instructions to produce ...

Researchers showed that the enzyme RNA polymerase can accurately read and transcribe an expanded, eight-letter genetic alphabet, not just DNA’s natural four-letter code. Using high-resolution ...

Scientists have crossed an important line in biological engineering. In a recent study, researchers used artificial intelligence to ...

For patients with diseases caused by certain genetic mutations, tRNA therapy – though still in the experimental stages – ...

Scientists have been hard at work for more than 20 years to instruct biological systems, such as E. coli cells, to produce ...

By STEPHANIE DUTCHEN / Harvard Medical School Communications At a glance: A new tool allows researchers to design and produce ...

Learn why a bank vole may hold clues as to how some animals can adapt and survive as climate change shifts habitats and food ...