In April 2021, Jamie McGowan was running a routine test. A computational biologist at the Earlham Institute in Norwich, ...

While codons (combinations of three nucleotides) may vary in which do what functions, a long-standing rule was that each codon serves one specific purpose. New evidence, however suggests that ...

A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers ...

Somewhere in a sample of ordinary pond water, a single-celled organism has been quietly breaking one of biology’s most ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism - a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with one stop codon - using a cellular platform that they developed ...

Researchers from the Broad Institute used a precision genome-editing tool to switch off the production of the misfolded ...

Scientists at deCODE genetics, a subsidiary of Amgen, have published a study in Nature Communications, comparing over 110 thousand patients with autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) from Iceland, Finland ...

Most organisms on Earth have the same basic genetic code, but it comes with some flaws. Scientists sought to work out those errors by creating their own artificial genome, which replaced E. coli’s ...

A long-standing question has been how viral RNAs that use genetic codes different from those used in human cells can still drive efficient viral protein production during infection. It emerges that ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: “Objectively, ambiguity in the genetic code should be deleterious; you end up generating a random pool of proteins,” Dipti Nayak, senior author of ...