The team studied Rhodotorula toruloides, a red yeast used to produce substances called oleochemicals. Scientists use a ...

The modification of standard genetic code has resulted in new method of making proteins with new functions. For example, one can make proteins with new side chains embedded with fluorophore, metal ...

"The genetic code is nearly optimal for numerous functions," said Joanna Masel, senior author and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona. "It’s a mind ...

Essentially all cells in an organism's body have the same genetic blueprint, or genome, but the set of genes that are ...

Han Xiao's research pioneers genetic reprogramming using noncanonical amino acids to control cellular functions and enzyme activities in vivo.

The Common Genetic Code Paul Nurse demonstrated that a strain of yeast with a defective gene could use the human version of that gene to repair itself.

All living things on Earth use a version of the same genetic code. Every cell makes proteins using the same 20 amino acids. Ribosomes, the protein-making machinery within cells, read the genetic ...

Evolution settled on a genetic code that uses four letters to name 20 amino acids. Synthetic biologists adding new bases to DNA will be free to improve on nature — if they can.

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 ImagesNearly all life, from ...

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 ...

Researchers make their own E. coli genome, compress its genetic code The genetic code is redundant, and it's possible to get rid of some of that.