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 team at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology calls their creation Syn57. It is a synthetic ...

A genetic cause for ME has been found for the first time, proving the illness is real. In a breakthrough that charities said finally provided “credibility and validity” for sufferers, the ...

Arrow worms, or chaetognaths, are strange ocean predators that have puzzled scientists for over a century. They have transparent, torpedo-shaped bodies, sharp grasping spines near their mouths, and ...

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This condition, called hexaploidy, made deciphering their genetic code like trying to reconstruct six different, yet similar, sets of encyclopedias that have been shuffled together.

Scientists just cracked the code to editing entire chromosomes flawlessly Date: August 5, 2025 Source: Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters Summary: A group of Chinese scientists has created ...

This important study characterises the morphogenesis of cortical folding in the ferret and human cerebral cortex using complementary physical and computational modelling. Notably, these approaches are ...

In addition to changing individual letters of the genetic code or integrating an exogenously delivered gene, the method can also be used to fluorescently label specific proteins.

Once dismissed as “junk” DNA, ancient viruses embedded in the human genome play a key role in early human development, research finds.

Now, scientists have redesigned the genetic code of the bacterium Escherichia coli to contain just 57 of the 64 codons. The findings were published in late July in Science.