Many of the amino acids that make up proteins are encoded by genetic material in more than one way. An information theorist explains how principles of nature may account for this variance.

WE ARE privileged to witness a major breakthrough in biology. The reading of the first words of the genetic code was an event for which 1961 will always be remembered. Now, in the current issue of ...

U.S. medical experts studied genetic code and found 275 million new variants that could explain why some people are more prone to disease than others.

These findings hint at earlier genetic codes distinct from the modern one. “This gives clues about other genetic codes that existed before ours and have since disappeared,” Masel explained.

However, the how and when of the emergence of the genetic code that unites all living organisms remains a mystery shrouded in scientific controversy. A new study led by Sawsan Wehbi, a doctoral ...

All living things on Earth use a version of the same genetic code. Every cell makes proteins using the same 20 amino acids. Ribosomes, the protein-making machinery within cells, read the genetic ...

The genetic code that dictates how genetic information is translated into specific proteins is less rigid than scientists have long assumed, according to research published today (November 9) in eLife ...

Researchers have reconstructed a long string of genetic code for what they believe is the common ancestor of placental mammals, which lived more than 75 million years ago.