The tomato was chosen not only for its economic significance but also for what Schatz describes as the "modest complexity" of its genome compared to that of many other plants. That said, a tomato ...

The synthetic bacteria contain a shorter genetic code with 57 codons rather than 64, freeing up space for further edits that might lead to new drugs or virus-resistant microbes ...

The recoded bacterium uses only 57 of the 64 possible genetic codes, freeing up seven to be used for different purposes ...

Molecular Darwinism refers to physical characteristics that persist through generations because the regions of the molecular DNA that code for those traits are unusually stable.

In theory, the building blocks of life are possible with a more expansive code than three-letter codons. New work shows that would be a challenge.

The iconic genetic code can be viewed as an "energy code" that evolved by following the laws of thermodynamics (flow of energy), causing its evolution to culminate in a nearly singular code for ...

The omicron variant is likely to have picked up genetic material from another virus that causes the common cold in humans, according to a new preliminary study, prompting one of its authors to ...