US scientists clash with Indian health officials over swine flu mutations
A dispute has arisen between US scientists and Indian health officials over the virulence of the H1N1 swine flu virus...
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Amino acids
Small molecules that can be linked together to make proteins, which are large, complex biological molecules.
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Ribosome nobel laureate elected to Royal Society presidency
Professor Sir Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has been confirmed to succeed Sir Paul Nurse as the President Elect of the Royal Society as of December this year...
Four rare genetic conditions added to screening list for UK newborns
All newborn babies in England are now to be offered screening for four rare life-threatening genetic disorders...
Event Review: Arrival of the Fittest
Precisely how adaptation and innovation fits into the process of natural selection remains a mystery. Evolutionary biologist Andreas Wagner thinks he's cracked the puzzle and tried to get us to agree at this Royal Institution lecture...
Event Review: Crick Lecture 2014 - 'Genetic control and the mammalian radiation'
You and all the whales, rhinos and bats owe your lives to a tiny shrew...
Scientists engineer organism with expanded genetic alphabet
Bacteria with two extra synthetic DNA bases in their genome have been created in the lab for the first time...
We are what our mothers eat
Increasing evidence, mainly from animal studies, suggests that eggs and very early embryos in the first few days after conception can be particularly sensitive to their environment with lifetime consequences including risk of diseases into adulthood...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
'Father of genomics' Fred Sanger dies aged 95
Fred Sanger, renowned biochemist, has died aged 95. Having pioneered seminal techniques for the understanding of both proteins and DNA, Dr Sanger is widely hailed as one of the most influential scientists of recent years...
Crick Cambridge college commemoration
A memorial to Francis Crick has been unveiled at his former college at the University of Cambridge to mark the 60th anniversary of the publication of the structure of DNA...
Rare form of autism treated with dietary supplement
A rare form of autism, caused by a mutation that alters amino acid metabolism, could potentially be treated with a nutritional supplement, according to an international team of researchers...