Researchers discover a unique genetic code in Antarctic archaea that encodes a rare amino acid, potentially advancing protein ...

Scientists in the UK have rewritten one of life’s oldest operating systems. They have built a bacterium that functions with a stripped-down genetic code, eliminating seven of the 64 instructions used ...

Scientists have created a strain of bacteria with a genetic code more streamlined – and more meddled with – than any other life on Earth. This bacterium, a synthetic Escherichia coli called Syn57, has ...

An illustration of E. coli. Scientists have been racing to shrink the genetic code of this bacterium. Kateryna Kon / Science Photo Library via Getty Images The DNA of nearly all life on Earth is made ...

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 ...

Did you know that over 90% of the corn grown in the United States is genetically modified? To create genetically modified foods, scientists alter the DNA of organisms using genetic engineering ...

This contribution is part of the special series of Inaugural Articles by members of the National Academy of Sciences elected in 2019. There are many questions related to the origin of life and how we ...

Abstract: Although deep learning-based detection technology has significantly improved the efficiency and accuracy of fault diagnosis, its development is limited by the differences in sample ...

Scripps Research scientists have developed a simpler method to add new amino acids to proteins using four-nucleotide codons, creating novel peptides with potential applications in drug discovery and ...

1 Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Transboundary Ecosecurity of Southwest China, Yunnan Key Laboratory of Plant Reproductive Adaptation and Evolutionary Ecology and Centre for Invasion Biology ...