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 ...

Scientists are uncovering the secrets of a fast-acting molecular messaging network that strongly influences how people and ...

“This innovative approach could revolutionize how we understand and control cellular functions,” said Xiao, the Norman Hackerman-Welch Young Investigator, associate professor of chemistry, director of ...

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 ...

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

Scientists sought to work out genetic errors by creating their own artificial genome, which replaced E. coli’s original ...

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

Essentially all cells in an organism's body have the same genetic blueprint, or genome, but the set of genes that are ...

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.