Researchers show simpler versions of the universal genetic code can still function in protein synthesis. In addition to understanding early primordial organisms, the research could lead to ...

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

Han Xiao's research pioneers genetic reprogramming using noncanonical amino acids to control cellular functions and enzyme activities in vivo.

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 ...

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).

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

Scientists have created a complete E. coli genome with an altered "genetic dictionary," a significant step toward the project of synthetic life.

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

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 ...

The genetic code is the universal set of rules that defines how DNA and RNA sequences are translated into proteins, enabling the accurate synthesis of essential biomolecules in all living organisms.

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.