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 ...

The genetic code is an ordered list, a cipher, where three nucleotides of DNA/RNA information can be translated into a single amino acid.

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

Pioneers such as 23andMe and Navigenics use snips of genes to make medical predictions. Now new tools from more startups are on the horizon ...

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… ...

Scientists have discovered a second code hiding within DNA. The second code contains information that changes how scientists read the instructions contained in DNA and interpret mutations to make ...

The codon sequence is read from the center of the wheel of genetic code. Mouagip via Wikimedia Commons Ribosomes read three-letter words called codons, and there are 64 different possible ...

Arrow worms, or chaetognaths, are strange ocean predators that have puzzled scientists for more than a century. They have transparent, torpedo-shaped bodies, sharp grasping spines near their ...

Scientists have a powerful new tool for controlling the coronavirus: Its own genetic code. The United States, home to the world’s biggest outbreak, has failed to tap the technique’s full ...