Millions of years of evolution gave life on earth a genetic dictionary with 64 words. Harvard University scientists thought they could do better. In an intriguing step toward lab-made organisms, they ...

A dictionary of genetics -- App. A. Classification -- App. B. Domesticated species -- App. C. Chronology -- Index of scientists listed in the chronology -- Bibliography -- App. D. Periodicals cited in ...

Affective disorders are highly heritable, but few genetic risk variants have been consistently replicated in molecular genetic association studies. The common method of defining psychiatric phenotypes ...

The genetic code is a set of rules defining how the four-letter code of DNA is translated into the 20-letter code of amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins. The genetic code is a set ...

A type of programming that imitates genetic algorithms. Genetic programming uses mutation and replication to produce algorithms that represent the "survival of the fittest." While genetic algorithms ...