For over six decades, biologists have relied on a fundamental rule: every three-letter codon in the DNA code corresponds to ...
The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...
UC Berkeley scientists discovered that a microbe can interpret the UAG stop codon in two ways, producing different proteins ...
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 controversial genetic science that’s busting the myths about Hitler - Geneticist Professor Turi King paints a more vivid ...
Three-year-old Nathaniel Clayton started having problems with his vision when he was just six months old. After numerous ...
Scientists trace Leonardo da Vinci's DNA through his descendants and family tombs to reconstruct his genetic code.
British scientists have decoded the genetic sequence of wheat — one of the world's oldest and most important crops — a development they hope could help breed better strains of the global food staple.