Scientists have discovered a microbe that bends the rules of the genetic code. This organism, Methanosarcina acetivorans, uses a flexible translation process. One codon, UAG, traditionally a stop ...

A new study finds that at least one Archaea has surprisingly flexibility when interpreting genetic code, which goes against a ...

The beauty of the DNA code is that organisms interpret it unambiguously. Each three-letter nucleotide sequence, or codon, in a gene codes for a unique amino acid that's added to a chain of amino acids ...

Abstract: DNA is emerging as a promising medium for storing huge volumes of data in a confined space that remains intact for thousands of years. Although this technique is very efficient, especially ...

Liquid culture flasks of bacteria grown in yellow broth covered with tinfoil on a shaker. Bacterial strains needed to be tested every step of the way to create the highly compressed genome. Credit: ...

Peking University, June 27, 2025: To overcome the inherent challenge of translation termination interference caused by stop codon reprogramming in mammalian cells, researchers from Peking University ...

Yale scientists have reprogrammed the genetic code of an organism, creating a novel genomically recoded organism (GRO) with only one stop codon, enabling the production of synthetic proteins with new ...

In our previous study, complete single DNA strands which were obtained from nuclei, chloroplasts and plant mitochondria obeyed Chargaff’s second parity rule, although those which were obtained from ...