The DNA of nearly all life on Earth contains many redundancies, and scientists have long wondered whether these redundancies served a purpose or if they were just leftovers from evolutionary processes ...

Ahmed Badran and colleagues at Scripps Research have supplemented the synthetic biology toolkit to streamline investigations into genetic code expansion. Credit: Scripps Research Ahmed Badran and ...

Genetic rule broken: Researchers found ciliates that treat stop codons as amino acid instructions, defying the universal genetic code. Two remarkable cases: Condylostoma magnum reassigns all three ...

We have gone further than ever before in creating life that is unlike anything that has evolved naturally. The genome of an Escherichia coli bacterium has been redesigned on a computer to use just 57 ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 amino acids. But certain groups of microbes have an expanded genetic code, in ...

Constructive Bio’s founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Professor Jason Chin, has been named the recipient of the 2026 ...

A team from the University of Illinois has uncovered surprising evolutionary links between the genetic code and tiny protein fragments called dipeptides. By analyzing billions of dipeptide sequences ...

Every living cell reads the same genetic code — a near-universal set of instructions, conserved across billions of years of evolution, that translates DNA sequences into proteins built from the ...