The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...

Pyrrolysine is an important component of methyltransferase enzymes, which the archaea use to metabolize methylamine in the environment. “The need for that metabolism and availability of the machinery ...

The same amino acid can be encoded by anywhere from one to six different strings of letters in the genetic code. Andrzej Wojcicki/Science Photo Library via Getty Images Nearly all life, from bacteria ...

The DNA inside of living organisms is packed with information, so much so that it's hard to search genetic databases, but ...

Your genetic code is not as logical as it could be. What if we could rewrite our genetic code, and make it more efficient, ...

All living things on Earth use a version of the same genetic code. Every cell makes proteins using the same 20 amino acids. Ribosomes, the protein-making machinery within cells, read the genetic code ...

UC Berkeley scientists discovered that a microbe can interpret the UAG stop codon in two ways, producing different proteins based on environmental cues. This breaks a long-held biological rule that ...

In the largest screen to date for alternative genetic codes, a computer program named Codetta scanned more than 250,000 genome sequences from bacteria and archaea to identify five never-before-seen ...

Three-year-old Nathaniel Clayton started having problems with his vision when he was just six months old. After numerous ...

The first child in history has successfully been treated with a new genetic therapy for an ultra-rare developmental defect ...