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

We've heard of GMOs, but this is ridiculous. A bombshell report published by scientists at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular ...

Researchers have identified a large number of areas in the human genetic code that are involved in regulating the way in which the liver functions, in a new study of over 61,000 people, published ...

In the past decade, there has been significant interest in studying the expression of our genetic code down to the level of ...

There is also redundancy in the genetic code; in most cases, several combinations of amino acids encode for one amino acid (tryptophan is the only amino acid specified by only one codon).

Evolution settled on a genetic code that uses four letters to name 20 amino acids. Synthetic biologists adding new bases to DNA will be free to improve on nature — if they can.

One tool, multiple functions In the past, addressing multiple, unrelated genetic abnormalities at once—by, say, editing one gene and suppressing another—would have required multiple distinct ...