In Gutierrez, the U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether a Texas death-row inmate has standing to argue that the state's statute governing post-conviction DNA testing violates due process.

Yvonne "Missy" Woods, a forensic genetics expert at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (United States), falsified DNA tests, jeopardizing the integrity of at least 654 legal cases. The information ...

The genetic code is the set of rules that defines how the information encoded in DNA is translated into proteins. The code consists of 64 codons, each composed of three nucleotides (a triplet). Each ...

Figure 2 shows the 64 codon combinations and the amino acids ... Other proteins play roles in DNA replication and transcription. Yet other proteins provide structural support for the cell, create ...