It has long been accepted that a gene's protein-coding information is contained in only one of its two DNA strands. But in 22 February Nature, Victor Corces and co-workers at the Department of Biology ...

A new interdisciplinary Northwestern University study reports that the important protein-DNA bond can be broken by unbound proteins floating around in the cell. This discovery sheds light on how ...

Researchers at Stanford Medicine discovered that bacteria can perform DNA inversions within single genes, altering their genetic coding. This finding challenges traditional genetic understanding and ...

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 ...

Science correspondent Ian Sample uses a visual aid to explain the implications of the new research. Video: Guardian guardian.co.uk Long stretches of DNA previously dismissed as "junk" are in fact ...

DNA is a triplet code. Each triplet, a group of three bases, codes for a specific amino acid. A detailed view of the process of transcription - making an mRNA copy of a gene’s worth of DNA in the ...

A detailed view of the process of transcription - making an mRNA copy of a gene's worth of DNA in the nucleus. During translation, proteins are synthesised in ribosomes. During this process, carrier ...