All biological function is dependent on how different proteins interact with each other. Protein-protein interactions ...

Now researchers from The Rockefeller University have unearthed intriguing genetic evidence: a protein variant found only in humans that may have helped shape the emergence of spoken language.

This study is the first to demonstrate that certain tRNA introns influence gene expression. Scientists have discovered that ...

In 1958, Francis Crick's sequence hypothesis finally provided an answer to the question: what is a gene? Why is this definition now considered overly simplistic? Roberts and Sharp also noted that ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Nucleotide Sequence of a Nucleic Acid ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 214 No. 2 (February 1966), p. 30 doi:10.1038 ...