An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

UC Berkeley scientists discovered that a microbe can interpret the UAG stop codon in two ways, producing different proteins ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 ...

In a giant feat of genetic engineering, scientists have created bacteria that make proteins in a radically different way than all natural species do. By Carl Zimmer At the heart of all life is a code.

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: ...

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 ...

Developers of mRNA therapeutics face an increasingly complex landscape: rising expectations for potency and durability, ...

BIOVECTRA and Revolution Biomanufacturing partner to integrate mRNA sequence design with end-to-end GMP manufacturing for ...