The report details a new computer program that can read the genome sequence of any organism and then determine its genetic code.

For most of the history of life on Earth, genetic information has been carried in a code that specifies just 20 amino acids. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, which do most of the ...

Scientists sought to work out genetic errors by creating their own artificial genome, which replaced E. coli’s original ...

Hughes and Chevance say that a triplet of triplets code might reframe how biologists study cancer genetics, for example, or other human genetic diseases for which triplet codon context may be more ...

In this article, Söll and colleagues review the mechanisms of genetic code flexibility — biased codon usage, codon reassignment, ambiguous decoding and recoding — and discuss how this ...

When scientists discovered DNA and its double-helix form, they had finally identified the molecules that contain every human’s unique genetic code. But determining how those instructions were ...

What is in charge of the genetic code? The answer seems to be another code, infinitely more subtle and mind-bendingly more complex than DNA’s string of genetic letters.

Scientists have begun to decipher the most difficult-to-read parts of the genome — the parts that don’t code for proteins. The new work reveals how errors in these genetic instructions can lead to… ...