Cells manufacture proteins by following instructions encoded in messenger RNA, which is read in three-letter groups called ...

Scientists have uncovered new genetic causes of diabetes in infants, pointing to a region of the genome that has long been ...

Scientists have found new genetic causes for diabetes in babies—in a part of the genome that has historically been overlooked in genetic studies. Until recently, most research has investigated causes ...

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

Learn how small mutations in non-coding DNA can alter sex development in rodents.

Humans have about 3 billion DNA bases in their genetic makeup. However, most of it does not encode for protein.

With the help of a technique called Massively Parallel Ribosome Profiling (MPRP), Shira Weingarten-Gabbay and colleagues identified more than 4000 open reading frames (ORFs) across 679 ...

Scientists at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) report that inactivating a certain protein-coding gene promotes liver tissue regeneration in mammals. "This ...