Scientists have identified a microbe capable of interpreting a single piece of genetic code in two completely different ways.

For over six decades, biologists have relied on a fundamental rule: every three-letter codon in the DNA code corresponds to one specific amino acid or signals the end of protein production. But a ...

Researchers uncovered a microbe that treats one stop codon as both a termination signal and an amino-acid instruction, revealing surprising genetic flexibility that may inspire new ways to influence ...

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 ...

The new complaint is aimed at changes the Trump administration would make to shift significant functions from the department to other federal agencies. By Michael C. Bender Reporting from Washington A ...

Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States Laboratory of Molecular Modelling and Bioinformatics (LAMMB), Department of Physical and Biological Sciences, Campus Sete ...

Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States Laboratory of Molecular Modelling and Bioinformatics (LAMMB), Department of Physical and Biological Sciences, Campus Sete ...

Stanley is an associate professor and Richard and Rhoda Goldman distinguished chair in the biological sciences as well as faculty director for the Alliance for Global Health and Science at the ...

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 ...

Alltrna, the preclinical Flagship Pioneering-backed biotech trying to turn transfer RNA (tRNA) into drugs, is slimming down as it works toward the clinic. The Massachusetts-based outfit has laid off ...